Instead of manually adding or changing chart elements or formatting the chart, you can quickly apply a predefined layout and style to your chart. Office provides a variety of useful predefined layouts and styles (or quick layouts and quick styles) that you can select from.

Learn how to create a chart in Excel and add a trendline. Visualize your data with a column, bar, pie, line, or scatter chart (or graph) in Office.

Change format of chart elements by using the Format task pane or the ribbon. You can format the chart area, plot area, data series axes, titles, data labels, and legend.

Exploring charts in Excel and finding that the one you pick isn’t working well for your data is a thing of the past! Try the Recommended Charts command on the Insert tab to quickly create a chart that’s just right for your data.

Use the charting features of Word and Excel to present your data in a pie, line, or bar chart or graphical format.

Learn how to create a chart in Excel with recommended charts. Excel can analyze your data and make chart suggestions for you.

Once you’ve created an org chart using SmartArt, you might want to change the color, style, or layout. Example: Change the color, add a 3-D effect, and change the layout of the org chart.

To go to the appropriate area, click one of the four icons (Fill & Line, Effects, Size & Properties (Layout & Properties in Outlook or Word), or Label Options) shown here.

Display or hide axes, or change other aspects of a chart axes in Excel, Word, Outlook, or PowerPoint.

After you use Visio to create an organization chart (org chart), there are a number of ways to rearrange the shapes. For example, you might want to space the shapes farther apart, hide subordinate shapes, or change the layout of shapes.