For example, Column charts illustrate how data changes over time, but they’re also the best design to show comparisons among items. Bar charts are, essentially, just horizontal Column charts and ...

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.

In this example, column A is too narrow, and columns B to D are too wide. Double-clicking the right edge of a column header resizes the column width to the largest value in that column.