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Creating charts

Creating charts - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Creating charts

In this worksheet, called CreatingCharts in the workbook 07-Charting, we've got two sets of data and we might want to depict this data in a visual way. Excel's charting capability has long been one of its most popular features. And by the way, the term "chart" and the term "graph", often used interchangeably, in Excel, we use the term "chart", officially and formally. Let's select the data that we want to depict graphically. We can easily display this information as a chart simply by clicking the Quick Access Tool that often appears when we select data. Click it, choose Charts>Clustered Column. What does that mean? We don't necessarily know. But that chart looks pretty good. Let's just click and we've got a chart. That's certainly one way. You can move charts--and eventually we would want to move this to position it so we can see your data as well as the chart-- simply drag an edge of the chart. You can resize the chart by dragging one of the so-called corner handles or side handles…

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