Tidy the sheet first
One header row, one row per thing you are charting, one measure per column. Merged cells, blank spacer rows, a totals row at the bottom and two tables stacked on one tab are the four things that will trip the import.
Charts from Excel Files
Upload an .xlsx or .csv file and turn the rows into an interactive chart you can embed anywhere — a website, a Notion page, a blog post. No formulas, no chart wizard, one line of HTML at the end.
用 Excel 数据做出的图表
这不是截图，而是一张真实的交互式图表，嵌入方式和你自己的完全一样。
示例：Risk and return by asset class, 2010-2019
嵌入代码
一行 HTML。这就是上面那张图表的真实代码——粘贴到任何支持 HTML 的页面即可。
<iframe width="100%" height="100%" src="https://plotset.com/api/embed/90eb4b0b-86d0-48b6-af55-8c45ae1ad4aa" />尺寸由你决定：直接在 iframe 上设置宽高，或把它放进一个按你自己比例设定的容器里。
PlotSet 与 Excel：实话实说
Excel is where the numbers live, and its chart tools are perfectly good for looking at them at your desk. The trouble starts when the chart has to leave the workbook. What you can take out is a picture: a pasted image that cannot be hovered, resized cleanly or restyled, and that has to be regenerated by hand every time a number changes. PlotSet reads the same workbook and gives you a chart that was built to be published — 300-plus templates including maps and animated formats, your own fonts and colours, tooltips on every point, and an embed snippet that behaves like any other element on your page.
如何用 Excel 数据做图表
从表格到发布嵌入，一步一步来。
Upload the file
Open a template and drop in the .xlsx or .csv. Column types are detected as you import — dates stay dates, numbers stay numbers, and values with thousands separators or currency symbols are parsed rather than treated as text.
Or paste the range instead
Select the cells including the header row, copy, and paste straight into the data grid. Quicker than exporting when you only need part of a large workbook.
Bind the columns to the chart
Tell the template which column holds the labels and which holds the values. Every template states what it expects, so this is usually two dropdowns.
Style it once
Set the palette, fonts and number formatting. These are chart settings rather than workbook settings, so they survive every data update and every re-upload.
Publish and copy the embed
Publishing gives you a live URL and a one-line iframe snippet. Paste it into your CMS, your docs or your site and the interactive chart renders in place.
相比 Excel 自带图表，你多得到什么
The chart is publishable, not a screenshot
A live embed with tooltips, plus PNG, SVG and PDF export at any size. What comes out of Excel for the web is a bitmap that was never meant to be a web page's chart.
Chart types Excel does not have
Choropleth and symbol maps by county or country, sankey diagrams, treemaps, bump charts, marimekko, animated bar chart races. Around 300 templates in total.
It looks like your brand, not like Office
Your fonts, your palette, your number formats — set once on the chart and applied everywhere it is embedded. No more nudging a legend into place after every refresh.
The workbook stays the source of truth
PlotSet holds a copy of the rows you brought over. Your calculations, pivots and models stay in Excel, where they belong.
它做不到什么
It reads values, not formulas
What arrives is the calculated result. That is normally what a chart wants, but it means recalculation still happens in Excel and a re-upload is how the chart hears about it.
One rectangular table per chart
PlotSet imports a single range with a header row. Multi-tab workbooks, merged headers spanning two rows and pivot-table output all need flattening first.
There is no live link to the file
Charts do not watch a workbook on your drive or in OneDrive for changes. Updating a published chart means re-uploading or re-pasting the new rows.
Excel-specific formatting does not travel
Conditional formatting, cell colours and custom number masks stay in the workbook. Formatting for the chart is set on the chart, which is also why it survives the next upload.
Excel 图表常见问题
Open a PlotSet template, upload the .xlsx or .csv, bind the label and value columns, then publish. You get a live URL and a one-line iframe snippet you can paste into any page.
把你的 Excel 数据发布成交互式图表
导入数据，几分钟内得到一张可嵌入的交互式图表——免费，无需信用卡。