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Presenting Data Effectively With Excel Charts

Filters allow you to temporarily remove content from a chart. To filter a chart, select the chart, click the filter button in the top right corner, and select the data you want to remove. You can also modify the data source of an existing chart by selecting the chart, going to the Chart Design tab, and selecting the data option to add or remove data series or categories. Finally, chart templates allow you to quickly apply formatting from one chart to another new chart by saving the formatted chart as a template.

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Presenting Data Effectively With Excel Charts

Filters allow you to temporarily remove content from a chart. To filter a chart, select the chart, click the filter button in the top right corner, and select the data you want to remove. You can also modify the data source of an existing chart by selecting the chart, going to the Chart Design tab, and selecting the data option to add or remove data series or categories. Finally, chart templates allow you to quickly apply formatting from one chart to another new chart by saving the formatted chart as a template.

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FILTERING CHART DATA Apply Template

Filters will allow you to remove content temporarily from the chart. • Go to the INSERT tab – CHART OPTIONS – ALL CHARTS – TEMPLATES
• Select the Chart
• Top Right corner of chart you will find the FILTER button.

Presenting Data Effectively with


Excel Charts
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CREATING EXCEL CHARTS


• Select the data range needed for Chart.
PRINTING CHARTS
• Go to the INSERT tab – select the type of chart for the data.
An Excel chart can be printed independently of the sheet or with the rest of the
content on the sheet.

SHORTCUT KEY MODIFY CHART DATA SOURCE Chart Only


After a chart has been created, you can modify the range used in the chart.
• Select the data range needed for Chart. • With the chart selected, go to the FILE tab – PRINT.
• Press function key F11 • Select the Chart
Chart and Worksheet
• Go to the CHART DESIGN tab – SELECT DATA
Using the shortcut key will place the chart on a new Chart Sheet
• In this window you can deselect/select Series and Category elements to • With the chart NOT selected, go to the FILE tab -- PRINT.
add or remove from the chart.
Printing a chart has all the same options as printing a normal Excel worksheet.
o The entire data range can be modified as well.
You can modify the margins, Header/Footer, Scaling and Orientation.
MOVING CHARTS
• Select the Chart
• Go to the CHART DESIGN tab – MOVE CHART
• Select to place the Chart on a New Sheet or on an existing sheet (Object
In)

CREATING CHART TEMPLATES


Chart templates allow you to quickly apply a prior chart design to a newly
created chart.
ADDING CHART ELEMENTS Create Template
Chart Elements include; Axes Labels/Titles, Legend, Chart Title, Data
Labels/Table and more. • Right Click the existing chart – SAVE AS TEMPLATE
• Give the Chart Template a name and click SAVE.
• Select the Chart
• Go to the CHART DESIGN tab – ADD CHART ELEMENT By default, the Chart Template will be saved in the Chart Templates folder
location on your computer.

Presenting Data Effectively with Excel Charts


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