The simple presentation and colored columns make for easy visual comparisons. Column charts also come in a variety of different forms, including clustered columns, stacked columns and 3-D columns.

Created a stacked column chart by clicking the "Insert" tab on the Excel Ribbon, clicking "Column" and selecting "Stacked Column" from the "2-D Column" group in the Column menu.

In this post we show you how to create a Bar Graph or Column Chart in Excel. Bar graphs could be both 2-D or 3-D depending on the editor you use.

I've been tinkering with MS Excel/Powerpoint (2010) and I am unable to create multiple stacked columns per field on the x-axis.

Excel 2016's many new features include six new chart types. Here we cover Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall, which cover statistical, trend, and other relationships.