How to make a bar graph in Excel. First, open the Excel application and retrieve the spreadsheet you're pulling the data from. The bar graph needs to have a range of data before you can make it. 1.

Bar graphs in Excel are a form of charts and are to be inserted similarly. Bar graphs could be both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional depending upon the type of Excel editor you use.

A Chart is a graphical representation of data, such as a pie chart, bar graph, line graph, etc. Charts can make the information interesting, appealing, and easy to read for your audience.

The Gap Width option in Excel for Mac 2011 controls the spacing of bars in a column graph. Decreasing this percentage shrinks the empty space between columns by widening the columns themselves.