How to Copy Chart (Graph) Format, & How to Duplicate Charts in Google Sheets

Google Sheets is an excellent tool for data analysis and visualization, and charts are an integral part of this process. Whether your job entails creating charts to showcase data in a report or you need to modify an existing chart, knowing how to copy chart format in Google Sheets or duplicating charts in Google Sheets will save you a lot of time and effort.

Today’s Google Sheets tutorial will give you a detailed walkthrough on how to copy chart format in Google Sheets. Not just that, we will also show you how to duplicate charts in Google Sheets and provide some helpful tips and answers to frequently asked questions related to this topic.

Copying a chart format (graph) in Google Sheets

As we reiterated earlier, knowing how to copy chart format in Google Sheets will save you a lot of time and effort. By learning how to copy charts in Google Sheets, you’ll be able to seamlessly apply the same visual style to multiple charts in Google Sheets.

Whether you have been using Google Sheets for a while or this is your first attempt to copy chart in Google Sheets, rest assured that this guide will simplify the entire process.

Before we get into all the exciting details, here is a sample chart we will use for this tutorial. We are assuming you already have a chart you intend to work with, so follow the guide we will show you to get the same result.

Step 1: Open the sheet containing the chart

To copy chart format in Google Sheets, you need to have a chart you intend to work with. If you already have a spreadsheet with the chart you want to copy, simply open up the spreadsheet to get started.

Step 2: Copy Chart

With the spreadsheet housing the chart you want to copy now open, you need to click anywhere within the chart and navigate to the three dots located in the top right corner of the chart. Click the three dots and select the option “Copy chart.”

Sounds confusing? The screenshot below should make things easy for you.

Step 3: Create a new spreadsheet

Having copied the chart, you need to choose where you want the chart to be pasted to. While you can choose to paste the copied chart to any cell of your choice, for this guide, we intend to paste the copied chart to a new sheet.

To create a new sheet. Simply navigate to the sheet name tab located at the bottom of your spreadsheet and click on the “+” icon. This action will create a clean spreadsheet.

If you executed this step correctly, you should have a new blank spreadsheet that looks like this:

Step 4: Paste the copied chart format

After creating a new spreadsheet, what’s left to do is paste the copied chart to the new spreadsheet. And there are two ways to do this.

The first option is to use the keyboard shortcut “Control + V” if you use a Windows computer or “Command + V” if you use Mac. To use the keyboard shortcut, simply choose the cell where you want to paste the copied chart to and hit Control + V or Command + V on your keyboard.

After executing the shortcut exactly as we detailed out, you should see the copied chart pop up in your new spreadsheet. Here is what ours looks like:

If you don’t like the keyboard shortcut, you can try this alternative way of pasting copied chart to a new spreadsheet.

Go to the new sheet you created earlier and right-click on the cell where you’d like to apply the copied chart format. From the options that pop up, select the option for “Paste.”

Your chart should now appear on the new spreadsheet, with the exact format as the original chart we copied.

Here is a short video demo showing you how to execute the alternative method of pasting the copied chart to a new spreadsheet.

That wasn’t too challenging, was it?

What’s the difference between copying a chart format in Google Sheets and duplicating charts in Google Sheets?

Wondering whether copying a chart in Google Sheets or duplicating charts in Google Sheets mean different things? Well, to answer your question, they both mean the same thing. So whether you’re copying chart format in Google Sheets or duplicating charts in Google Sheets, they both mean the same thing.

And yes, the process we highlighted above for copying chart format in Google Sheets can be used to duplicate charts in Google Sheets.

Regardless of whether you’re duplicating charts in Google Sheets or copying chart format in Google Sheets, what you are essentially doing is creating a copy of an existing chart without making any changes to the original chart.

Helpful tips:

When copying a chart in Google Sheets, you can either copy the entire chart or copy specific elements such as tiles, labels or even legends. It all depends on what your goal is.
Duplicating charts in Google Sheets is the same process as copying chart format in Google Sheets. So don’t let the language confuse you.
There are different ways to copy a chart in Google Sheets. You can use the keyboard shortcut “Control + C” or “Command + C” if you use a Mac laptop. This saves you time. On the flip side, you can explore the alternative method we highlighted in today’s guide, which is a bit longer.

Conclusion

Google Sheets has made it insanely easy to copy chart format (graph) in Google Sheets. Whether you’re a novice or have some experience with Google Sheets, you should be able to copy chart in Google Sheets with just a few clicks.

In today’s Google Sheets tutorial, we gave you a comprehensive walkthrough on how you can copy chart format in Google Sheets. By following these steps, you should be able to copy charts to Google Sheets without sweating it.

We also clarified whether there are any differences between copying chart format in Google Sheets and duplicating charts in Google Sheets. So if you earlier had some confusion about the two, we are sure that’s all settled now.

Frequently asked questions

Can I copy chart format between different sheets in Google Sheets?

If there is anything we love about Google Sheets, it is how insanely easy they have made it to copy chart formats. Whether you’re working with one chart or multiple charts, feel free to apply the same steps for copying chart format in Google Sheets, highlighted in this guide.

What happens when I duplicate charts in Google Sheets?

When you duplicate a chart in Google Sheets, what you are essentially doing is creating a copy of the existing chart without modifying it.

Is it possible to duplicate multiple charts in Google Sheets?

Yes, you can select and duplicate multiple charts in Google Sheets. All you need to do is select the charts you want to duplicate and copy them simultaneously. It’s honestly that easy.