How To Show Percentages In Stacked Column Chart In Excel

Posted on: 11/21/2021

With a stacked column chart in Excel, you can view partial numbers, but what do you do when you want to show percentages? Excel's pie charts show percentages, but stacked column charts do not. We are going to use a mixed reference to create a column chart with percentages.

**Stacked column chart with percentages in Excel**

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Steps to create a stacked column chart with percentages

Copy your data and paste somewhere else on your spreadsheet 3:26 in the video
Select and remove the values and use a mixed reference to find the percentages 3:53 in the video
Create a stacked column chart - 5:00 in the video

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Chris Menard

Chris Menard is a Microsoft Trainer (MCT) and works as a full-time Trainer at BakerHostetler - one of the largest law firms in the US. Chris runs a YouTube channel with 900+ technology videos that cover various tools such as Excel, Word, Zoom, Teams, Gmail, Copilot, Google Calendar, and Outlook. To date, the channel has helped over 20 million viewers. Menard also does 2 to 3 public speaking events yearly, presenting at the Administrative Professional Conference (APC), the EA Ignite Conference, the University of Georgia, and CPA conferences. You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://chrismenardtraining.com/linkedin or watch his videos on YouTube at https://chrismenardtraining.com/youtube.