How To Create or Draw a Bar Chart Using MS Word 2013

How To Create a Bar Chart using MS Word 2013

Open Word 2013

Suppose we will design a bar chart to indicate some activities and how many day(s) each activity will take within a given timeframe.

Here we have three activities and we have five days to complete these tasks.

Insert a table in the word document having 5 rows and 8 columns.

Write down all the days as Day 1, Day 2 ......Day 5 and all activities as Acrivity A,......Activity C.

Suppose, Activity A will take 1 day, the first day.
Activity B will take 2 days from the first day and
Activity C will take 3 days, the last day.

Now we will design the bar chart.
At first, we will insert a line from the Shapes icon. Them we will work on this line, adjust it as required.

We will also show how to overlap the period and how we will color it.

Have a look in the video.

Now we will overlap the Activity B in Day 1.
We draw a line indicating that Activity C will take 3 days.
Now look at the completed bar chart.

Its very easy to draw a bar chart in MS Office 2013.

Warch the full activity in the video.