
Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus Greek (278)Įnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus English (278).The map chart below shows US states by population and I will show how I made this. Excel uses maps from Bing and it works very well, all you need to do is provide data. The available commands in order to modify our Map Chart are the following: Excel 2016 owners with an office 365 subscription can now easily build beautiful map charts. The Design and Format tab have been activated on the ribbon, where we can use the available commands in order to change elements on our Map Chart. In the next image, I have moved the Map Chart to a Worksheet on its own, in order to view all the details. In the image below, the Filled Map command is selected from the Maps drop down menu, and straight away a Map has been inserted in our Spreadsheet per the Data that we had inserted. Then all we have to do is to select the Maps command from the area of the ribbon named Charts, and from the drop down menu that appears we select the command Filled Map. Once we have the necessary data inserted in our Spreadsheet, we select the Insert tab and then we locate the area of the ribbon named Charts as shown below. *Note that the inserted data has been formatted as a table. We might also need to add another level of geographic detail.Īs we can see in the image below, in the Spreadsheet I have inserted data that contains Countries and the Population of each country.
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If the Series Options aren't already displayed, then. You should see the Format Object Task Pane on the right-hand side of the Excel window. We should have one column for our geographic location (country/region, state or province, county or postal code), then our numeric or categorical values in the second column. To display the Series Options for your map chart you can right-click on the outer portion of the map and select Format Chart Area in the right-click menu, or double-click on the outer portion of the map.
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To find out how to create a Map Chart in Excel 365 just keep reading. We use a Map Chart when we have Geographical Regions in our spreadsheet such as Countries – Regions – States – Counties or Postal Codes. Now in Excel 365 we can use a Map Chart to compare values and show categories across Geographical Regions.
