Bubble charts

In this section, we'll look at bubble charts. Note that you can either create a new rule as shown here or edit the bubble charts inserted using the one-click option explained here.

Refer to the Create Rule section to get started. Once the rule is created and you can see the Conditional Formatting side panel, follow the steps below.

Select Bubble Chart in the Color scale for dropdown. Format by should be set to Color Scale.

Conditional formatting with bubble charts

We've already covered some of the options in the Color scales section. Let's look at the customization options specific to bubble charts.

1. Hide value

Check the Hide value checkbox to see only the bubble charts - the values are hidden.

Hide value

2. Bubble overlay

Enable this option to allow the bubble chart to overlap the cell value. Disable this checkbox if you do not want the chart to ovelap the value.

Bubble overlay enabled

Bubble overlay disabled

3. Bubble color

Set a custom color for the bubble chart.

Customizing the bubble color

4. Apply color to text

Set the font color of cell values to match the bubble color. Note that we've disabled the Bubble overlay checkbox as the values will not be visible when the chart overlaps them.

Apply color to text option

5. Measure based color

The gradient and color intensity of the bubbles are determined based on the minimum and maximum values of the measure selected from the dropdown.

Select measure option