Chapter 15: Spreadsheet and Worksheet Basics

Lesson 96: Worksheets with Charts

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Charts

• Charts: allow you to show information graphically– Column & Bar charts: compare values

across categories of data– Pie charts: show how much each value is

of a total value

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Parts of a Chart

• Chart title: identifies the chart contents

• Category axis: the x-axis is used to plot categories of data (horizontal)

• Value axis: the y-axis is used to associate values with the categories you created (vertical)

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Parts of a Chart

• Data points: the bars, columns, or pie slices that represent the numerical data in a chart

• Gridlines: lines through a chart that help identify points on the axis

• Legend: the key used to identify the chart’s categories

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Parts of a Chart

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Create Chart

• Select cell range

• Click Column in the Charts group on the Insert tab

• Click the Clustered Column option

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Format Chart

• Click the Quick Layout down arrow – Chart Tools Design Ribbon, Chart Layouts

Group

• Adds chart title, axis titles, and gridlines

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Move and Resize Charts

• Move pointer over the chart– When pointer changes to a cross, click

and drag the chart

• Click and drag lower right corner of the chart border to resize

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Chart Types

• Column chart

• Bar chart

• Pie graph

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Conditional Formatting

• Conditional Formatting: enables you to apply formats in a cell when the data in the cell meet conditions you specify– Example: apply conditional formatting to

change the font color and cell fill color to identify certain cells that have final values that are above, below, or equal to a specific value.

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Conditional Formatting

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