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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