How to Create Dynamic Chart Titles In Excel?

Excel is a tool that is generally used by accounting professionals for financial data analysis but can be used for different purposes. It can be used for data visualization, data analysis, and data management, which uses spreadsheets for managing, storing, and visualizing large volumes of data. Cell, a rectangular block(intersection of rows and columns), is used to enter the data. This tool uses functions and formulas to get insights from the data. This tool supports data visualization through the creation of charts, and we can create different kinds of charts like line charts, bar charts, etc, based on the requirements for visualization purposes. 

Dynamic Chart Title In Excel

To change the chart title, one needs to manually change it by typing the text in the box. But we can make the chart title dynamic which means it will get automatically updated by referring to a cell in the excel sheet. Whenever the value in the cell gets updated same gets reflected in the chart title. For the purpose of demonstration, we will compare the sales(in units) of two different products over the given years:

To create a dynamic chart title, follow the below steps:

Step 1: Select the cell containing the data.

Step 2: Select the ‘Insert’ Tab from the top and select any chart (column chart).

The column chart will get created,

Step 3: Choose a cell to be referred for chart title and enter the title there.

Step 4: Click on the Chart Title box.

Step 5: Go to the formula bar, type equals to (=), and then select the cell having the title value.

Step 6: Press Enter.

We can see that the Title of the chart is changed now. To check if it is getting dynamically updated, let’s change the value of the title in the cell.

Output

We can see that the chart title becomes “2021” after updating the value in the cell.