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Inserting a data chart

Inserting a data chart

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Inserting a data chart

- [Voiceover] If you're going to use numerical data in your Word document, it can be difficult to analyze, just looking at numbers, so another option might be to add a graphical representation of those numbers using a chart and we have Excel functionality at our fingertips when we do this. So we'll continue to work with our LH Revenues document, you can open up LH Revenues 0908 if you need to get caught up, and this is the content that we want to use. So we have values for London, Paris and San Francisco over three different years. So let's start by selecting the content. I'm going to click and drag, just left of 2013, above London, across and down, to get all of the cells in this table. Next, I'm going to go up to the Home tab of the ribbon here and click Copy, because this is the data I want to use, eventually, in my chart. Now we'll click down below the table, so your cursor's flashing down below, and we're going to go up to the Insert tab and we're going to insert a Chart. When…

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