Chapter 11. Creating Charts and Graphics

Chapter at a Glance

Creating Charts and Graphics

In this chapter, you will learn to:

Create charts.

Customize the appearance of charts.

Find trends in your data.

Create dynamic charts using PivotCharts.

Create diagrams by using SmartArt.

When you enter data into a Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 worksheet, you create a record of important events, whether they are individual sales, sales for an hour of a day, or the price of a product. What a list of values in cells can’t communicate easily, however, is the overall trends in the data. The best way to communicate trends in a large collection of data is by creating a chart, which summarizes ...

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