Adding a Trendline to a Chart

You can use the data in your Excel workbooks to analyze past performance, but you can also have Excel make its best guess as to future performance if current trends continue. For example, if you create a chart that represents your company’s sales for the past five years, you can have Excel analyze the data and add a trendline to the chart to represent how much sales would increase if the current trend holds true for the next year.

Add a Trendline to a Data Series

  1. Click the chart to which you want to add a trendline.

  2. Click the data series to which you want to add a trendline.

  3. Click the Layout tab.

  4. Click Trendline.

  5. Click Linear Forecast Trendline.

    Add a Trendline to a Data Series

    Tip

    Tip

    If you’d like more control over your trendline, such as by choosing a different mathematical procedure to extend the line (although the default Linear option works the vast majority of the time) or by choosing the number of units by which to extend the line, click Trendline and then click More Trendline Options to display the Format Trendline dialog box.

    Caution

    Caution

    Unless you’re working with certain types of scientific data and you know that your trendline requires a logarithmic, exponential, or other regression type, select the Linear Trendline option. If you don’t, you won’t get accurate results!

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