Under Error Amount, do one or more of the following: On the Layout tab, in the Analysis group, click Error Bars, and then click More Error Bar Options. On the Format tab, in the Current Selection group, click the arrow next to the Chart Elements box, and then click the chart element that you want. This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design, Layout, and Format tabs. On a 2-D area, bar, column, line, xy (scatter), or bubble chart, click the error bars, the data point, or the data series that has the error bars that you want to change, or do the following to select them from a list of chart elements: Ny = total number of data values in all seriesĪdd, change, or remove errors bars in a chart in Office 2010
Yis = data value of series s and the ith point M = number of series for point y in chart Excel uses the following equations to calculate the Standard Error and Standard Deviation amounts that are shown on the chart. People often ask how Excel calculates error amounts. Review equations for calculating error amounts You can remove either of these error bars by selecting them, and then pressing Delete. Scatter charts can show both horizontal and vertical error bars. Note: The direction of the error bars depends on the type of chart you’re using.
