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By When you make Excel charts in Office 2011 for Mac, you find a brand-new set of Chart tabs on the Ribbon that guide you with the latest Microsoft charting technology. Excel 2011 for Mac offers real power in its chart-analysis tools, but using them requires some knowledge of the math behind the features. Adding a trendline to charts in Excel 2011 for Mac Excel can add a line called a trendline that calculates and projects the trends into the past or future indicated by your data. Used improperly, a trendline can present a false picture of what’s going on with your data, so make sure you and your audience are clear about the calculation choices you made to produce your trendline. It’s best to start with a line or bar chart. Not all chart types support trendlines.
Using a single data series makes your chart much easier to understand. To add a trendline, choose the Trendline option from the Chart Layout tab of the Ribbon. This brings up the Trendline gallery with options to choose from. Adding drop lines and high-low lines to charts in Excel 2011 for Mac Two special kinds of lines can be added to your line chart: drop-lines and high-low lines. On the Ribbon’s Chart Layout tab, go to the Analysis group and choose Lines→Drop Lines to add lines from your data points to the X-axis. Hi-low lines connect the highest value and lowest value of each data point with a line.
In the Chart Layout tab’s Analysis group, choose Lines→High-Low Lines to add these. Adding up-down bars to charts in Excel 2011 for Mac Up-down bars automatically highlight the differences between the topmost and second topmost values of your chart. On the Ribbon’s Chart Layout tab, go to the Analysis group and click Up/Down Bars to turn these on or off. Double-click one of the bars to display the Format Up Bars dialog, where you can customize these bars. Adding Error Bars to charts in Excel 2011 for Mac In the Chart Layout tab’s Analysis group, click Error Bars to display a pop-up menu where you can choose from standard error, percentage, or standard deviation to add error bars. Double-click an error bar to display the Format Error Bars dialog.
You can format your error bars in this dialog. You can specify custom error values by clicking the Specify Value button and choosing cells.
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For example, you can show a 10 percent positive and negative error amount in the results of a scientific experiment like this: You can use error bars in 2-D area, bar, column, line, xy (scatter), and bubble charts. In scatter and bubble charts, you can show error bars for x and y values. Note: The following procedures apply to Office 2013 and newer versions.
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Add or remove error bars. Click anywhere in the chart. Click the Chart Elements button next to the chart, and then check the Error Bars box. (Clear the box to remove error bars.). To change the error amount shown, click the arrow next to Error Bars, and then pick an option. Pick a predefined error bar option like Standard Error, Percentage or Standard Deviation.
Pick More Options to set your own error bar amounts, and then under Vertical Error Bar or Horizontal Error Bar, choose the options you want. This is also where you can change the direction, end style of the error bars, or create custom error bars. Note: The direction of the error bars depends on the type of chart you’re using. Scatter charts can show both horizontal and vertical error bars.
You can remove either of these error bars by selecting them, and then pressing Delete. Review equations for calculating error amounts People often ask how Excel calculates error amounts. Excel uses the following equations to calculate the Standard Error and Standard Deviation amounts that are shown on the chart. This option Uses this equation Standard Error Where: s = series number i = point number in series s m = number of series for point y in chart n = number of points in each series yis = data value of series s and the ith point ny = total number of data values in all series Standard Deviation Where: s = series number i = point number in series s m = number of series for point y in chart n = number of points in each series yis = data value of series s and the ith point ny = total number of data values in all series M = arithmetic mean Add, change, or remove errors bars in a chart in Office 2010. In Excel, you can display error bars that use a standard error amount, a percentage of the value (5%), or a standard deviation. Standard Error and Standard Deviation use the following equations to calculate the error amounts that are shown on the chart.
This option Uses this equation Where Standard Error s = series number i = point number in series s m = number of series for point y in chart n = number of points in each series yis = data value of series s and the ith point ny = total number of data values in all series Standard Deviation s = series number i = point number in series s m = number of series for point y in chart n = number of points in each series yis = data value of series s and the ith point ny = total number of data values in all series M = arithmetic mean. On 2-D area, bar, column, line, xy (scatter), or bubble chart, do one of the following:. To add error bars to all data series in the chart, click the chart area. To add error bars to a selected data point or data series, click the data point or data series that you want, or do the following to select it from a list of chart elements:.
Click anywhere in the chart. This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design, Layout, and Format tabs. On the Format tab, in the Current Selection group, click the arrow next to the Chart Elements box, and then click the chart element that you want. On the Layout tab, in the Analysis group, click Error Bars.
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Do one of the following:. Click a predefined error bar option, such as Error Bars with Standard Error, Error Bars with Percentage, or Error Bars with Standard Deviation. Click More Error Bar Options, and then under Vertical Error Bars or Horizontal Error Bars, click the display and error amount options that you want to use. On a 2-D area, bar, column, line, xy (scatter), or bubble chart, click the error bars, the data point, or the data series that has the error bars that you want to change, or do the following to select them from a list of chart elements:. Click anywhere in the chart.
This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design, Layout, and Format tabs. On the Format tab, in the Current Selection group, click the arrow next to the Chart Elements box, and then click the chart element that you want. On the Layout tab, in the Analysis group, click Error Bars, and then click More Error Bar Options.
Under Display, click the error bar direction and end style that you want to use. On a 2-D area, bar, column, line, xy (scatter), or bubble chart, click the error bars, the data point, or the data series that has the error bars that you want to change, or do the following to select them from a list of chart elements:. Click anywhere in the chart. This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design, Layout, and Format tabs.
On the Format tab, in the Current Selection group, click the arrow next to the Chart Elements box, and then click the chart element that you want. On the Layout tab, in the Analysis group, click Error Bars, and then click More Error Bar Options. Under Error Amount, do one or more of the following:.
To use a different method to determine the error amount, click the method that you want to use, and then specify the error amount. To use custom values to determine the error amount, click Custom, and then do the following:.
Click Specify Value. In the Positive Error Value and Negative Error Value boxes, specify the worksheet range that you want to use as error amount values, or type the values that you want to use, separated by commas.
For example, type 0.4, 0.3, 0.8. On a 2-D area, bar, column, line, xy (scatter), or bubble chart, click the error bars, the data point, or the data series that has the error bars that you want to remove, or do the following to select them from a list of chart elements:. Click anywhere in the chart. This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design, Layout, and Format tabs. On the Format tab, in the Current Selection group, click the arrow next to the Chart Elements box, and then click the chart element that you want. Do one of the following:.
On the Layout tab, in the Analysis group, click Error Bars, and then click None. Press DELETE. Do any of the following: Express errors as a percentage, standard deviation, or standard error. In the chart, select the data series that you want to add error bars to. For example, in a line chart, click one of the lines in the chart, and all the data marker of that data series become selected.
On the Chart Design tab, click Add Chart Element. Note: You can also define error values as a range of cells from the same Excel workbook. To select the range of cells, in the Custom Error Bars dialog box, clear the contents of the Positive Error Value or Negative Error Value box, and then select the range of cells that you want to use. Add up/down bars. In the chart, select the data series that you want to add up/down bars to.
On the Chart Design tab, click Add Chart Element, point to Up/Down Bars, and then click Up/down Bars. Depending on the chart type, some options may not be available.