If you already have an Excel spreadsheet with data input, instead double-click the spreadsheet and skip the next two steps.

On a Mac, Excel may just open to a blank workbook automatically depending on your settings. If so, skip this step.

For example, tracking your budget over the year would have the date in the left column and an expense in the right.

Make sure you include column headers if you have them.

If this toolbar doesn’t open, click your graph and then click the Design tab in the green ribbon.

If this toolbar doesn’t open, click your graph and then click the Design tab in the green ribbon.

You can also move specific sections of the line graph (e. g. , the title) by clicking and dragging them around within the line graph’s window.

You can do this for your graph’s axes’ labels as well.