Microsoft Excel 2019 Step by Step, First Edition

9 Create charts and graphics

In this chapter

• Create charts

• Perform business intelligence analysis using charts

• Customize chart appearance

• Find trends in your data

• Create combo charts

• Summarize your data by using sparklines

• Create diagrams by using SmartArt

• Create and manage shapes

• Create and manage mathematical equations

Practice files

For this chapter, use the practice files from the Excel2019SBS\Ch09 folder. For practice file download instructions, see the introduction.

When you enter data into an Excel 2019 worksheet, you create a record of important events, whether they are individual sales, sales for an hour of a day, the price of a product, or something else entirely. What a list of values in cells can’t communicate easily, however, ...