Create a Column Chart in Word using C#

This tutorial explains how to create a column chart in Word using C#. It has the details to set the development environment, a list of steps, and a sample code showing how to create a bar chart in Word using C#. You will learn to create various types of charts using the ChartType enumerator and set different properties of a chart.

Steps to Create a Column Chart in Word using C#

  1. Setup the environment for Aspose.Words for .NET to create a chart
  2. Create a new Word document and instantiate the DocumentBuilder for it
  3. Call the InsertChart method by providing the chart type and size
  4. Access the new chart object and get the reference to the chart series
  5. Clear the default series and add a new series with the desired categories
  6. Save the Word document with the chart on the disk

These steps cover the details of how to make a column chart in Word using C#. Create a Word document, instantiate a DocumentBuilder object for it, access the chart from the shape, and get the reference to the series of the chart. Clear the default series of the chart and add a new series with categories to customize the chart.

Code for Creating a Bar Graph in Word using C#

This code snippet demonstrates how to make bar charts in Word using C#. You can set chart types such as Area, Area3D, Bar, Bubble, Column3D, Pie, Radar, Stock, etc. There are multiple properties that you can set for a chart e.g. legend, DataTable, chart format, title, and axis data.

This article has taught us to create charts in a Word file. If you want to split a Word file, refer to the article on How to split Word file using C#.

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