Curly brackets in excel2/26/2024 To do this, you need to select any data series in the chart and then Press Control + 1 (CTRL+1) or right click on the data series and choose format data series menu item or go to the Excel Layout Ribbon and choose Format Selection from the Current Selection group:Īnd change the Gap Width from the Format Data Series dialog box to NO GAP.Ĭlick on the Plot Area of your chart and then add Chart Data Labels by going to the Layout Ribbon and choose Center from the Data Labels button in the Labels group.ħ) Change the data labels for the curly brackets / left brace groups to Series and remove Percentage data labels. Now we need to move the braces/brackets closer to the other stacked column. It should now look like this:ĭ) Repeat Step 4C for the Korean Auto Makers and your chart will now look like this:ĥ) Close the Gap on the the Chart columns. Your spreadsheet will now look like this with the shape.Ī) Now select the left brace graphic you just created and copy it.ī) Then select the stacked column chart/graph you have already createdĬ) Then select the data point / column that represents the Japanese Auto Makers and press Control + V (CTRL+V) to paste the shape and it will change the column to a left brace/curly bracket. Then in the Basic Shapes section, choose the Left Brace (what most call a curly bracket and I call a mustache )Īfter you select the left brace from the menu, you need to go to your spreadsheet and drag and drop the shape about 1inch long. Your resulting chart will now look like this:ģ) Insert a curly bracket graphic/Excel shape (Mustache Graphic) into the spreadsheet.įrom the Insert Ribbon, in the Illustrations group, choose the Shapes button. You must switch the chart data by clicking on the Switch Row/Column button in the Data group of the Design Ribbon. Not quite what I expected but not a problem. Your resulting Excel chart will look like this: Highlight the range of A3:D11 and Insert a Stacked Column chart from the Insert Ribbon: The formulas in Cells C3 and C4 are basic sum formulas that calculate the total percentage of Japanese (D5:D8) Auto Makers and total percentage of Korean (D9:D10) Auto Makers. The blank series in column B will allow us some space for labels. I set up the data into 3 different series like this. See this additional tutorial regarding the main technique: How-to Make and Add Custom Markers in Excel Dashboard Charts So lets see how I did this part of the infographic in Excel.ġ) Create your data range for the Excel Chartģ) Insert a curly bracket graphic/Excel shape (Mustache Graphic) into the spreadsheetĤ) Copy and replace the column graphics with a custom marker/custom chart graphic.ħ) Change the Bracket data labels to Series and remove Percentage.Ĩ) Move Data Labels for curly bracket/mustache graphics to the left. The chart updates itself and the curly brackets adjust accordingly. In this picture below, I have modified the data to make Korean percentages 20 percent bigger and Japanese percentages smaller by 20 percent. It can do this because it is not drawn over the chart, but actually part of the chart. Also, as the values change the brackets will move to accommodate the change in values. I think it can be an important Excel technique that is easy to create and does not need Excel Macros. Here I have modified the Excel chart to highlight Japanese Auto Makers versus Korean Auto Makers with Mustache or Curly Brackets. This will really help our executives focus on the parts of the dashboard chart that are the most important. So what a cool technique being able to group the values with a bracket. Tune into the next tutorial to see how I created the lines matched to the legend values. This tutorial will show you how to make the Mustache or Curly bracket grouping. Also the chart has lines that match the column colors that extend to the legend values. I lost the newspaper issue and WSJ is a paid site so I can’t show you the exact graphic, but it looked very similar to this:Īs you can see, the chart is grouped by the Japanese Auto Makers with a left curly bracket or as I like to call it a “Mustache” Bracket. Back in 2011 I saw a New York Times infographic and I wondered if I could easily create this type of graph in an Excel Chart. We want to return the Top 5 Total Sales by Account Manager.I love trying to create an Excel chart that was originally drawn with an Infographic software package. Note, the data is formatted in Excel Tables In the caption below, we have sample data that has Account Manager and Total Sales. In this video tutorial, we learn about when to use comma and semicolon to achieve the same result in different way.
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