It’s a good idea to use your own bin numbers because they may be more useful for your analysis.

In the next column, type the bin numbers in ascending order, adding a label in the first cell if you want.

Please remove your email address from your post, unless you really like getting spamed. Is there a way to represent the line break within the Excel 'Replace' tool, just like ^p in the Word 'Replace' tool? Edited by moderator: email address removed. Or is there a way to paste a Word table (which has line breaks within the table cells) into Excel, keeping the line breaks? Word for mac fill line. The Histogram tool won’t work with qualitative numeric data, like identification numbers entered as text. Be sure to use quantitative numeric data, like item amounts or test scores.

On a worksheet, type the input data in one column, adding a label in the first cell if you want.

Before creating your histogram, import or input the data you want to display as a histogram in a new Excel workbook table with separate columns or rows for value and frequency data. It is a special kind of bar graph where bars represent 'bins' that group together values at specific intervals. Histogram Chart A histogram is a visual representation of the distribution of numerical data.

Make sure you have loaded the Analysis ToolPak.To change the value, enter a different decimal number in the box. Underflow bin Select this check box to create a bin for all values below or equal to the value in the box to the right. Overflow bin Select this check box to create a bin for all values above the value in the box to the right. Number of bins Enter the number of bins for the histogram (including the overflow and underflow bins). Bin width Enter a positive decimal number for the number of data points in each range. Automatic This is the default setting for histograms.

Tip: To count the number of appearances for text strings, add a column and fill it with the value “1”, then plot the histogram and set the bins to By Category.

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