Before you edit: You can add a legend to line, area, column, bar, scatter, pie, waterfall, histogram, or radar charts. To customize your legend, you can change the position, font, style, and color.

Use a table chart to turn your spreadsheet table into a chart that can be sorted and paged. Table charts are often used to create a dashboard in Google Sheets or embed a chart in a website.

Use a bar chart when you want to compare individual items. For example, compare ticket sales by location, or show a breakdown of employees by job title. Learn how to add & edit a chart.

Use a line chart when you want to find trends in data over time. For example, get trends in sales or profit margins each month, quarter, or year. Learn how to add & edit a chart.

Scatter charts show numeric coordinates along the horizontal (X) and vertical (Y) axes. Use a scatter chart when you want to find out how much one variable is affected by another.

Make a chart or graph On your Android phone or tablet, open a spreadsheet in the Google Sheets app. Select the cells you want to include in your chart. Tap Insert Chart. Optional: To choose a …

To show sets of data side by side, you can add X-axis columns to your spreadsheet and chart. For bar charts, you can also add Y-axis columns.

Use a pie chart when you want to compare parts of a single data series to the whole. For example, compare how many new customers were acquired through different marketing …

When you insert a chart, table, or slide to Google Docs or Google Slides, you can link them to existing files. Learn how to add and edit tables that don’t link to Google Sheets.

You can add error bars to bar or line charts based on a constant value, a percentage value of a specific item, or the series' standard deviation value. If you choose the standard deviation …