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Lesson 7 Creating Charts

The document discusses how to create and format charts in Microsoft Excel, including defining different chart types, inserting charts, formatting chart elements using the Design, Layout, and Format tabs, and how to move and resize charts. It also covers creating sparklines, mini charts that can be inserted into cells to represent data trends. Examples are provided of creating line, column, and win/loss sparkline charts.

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Lesson 7 Creating Charts

The document discusses how to create and format charts in Microsoft Excel, including defining different chart types, inserting charts, formatting chart elements using the Design, Layout, and Format tabs, and how to move and resize charts. It also covers creating sparklines, mini charts that can be inserted into cells to represent data trends. Examples are provided of creating line, column, and win/loss sparkline charts.

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Lesson 7

creating Charts
Specific Objectives:

Define a chart and its types


Perform how to create a chart
Employ how to move and resize a chart
Use the chart tools design, layout and
format commands
Chart
A Microsoft Excel Chart is a graphical representation
of data.
The chart data, called the data source, is stored in
a range of cells in the worksheet.
A data series is a group of related information in a
column or row of a worksheet that is plotted on the
chart.
An embedded chart is a chart inserted in the
center of the worksheet. You can move an
embedded chart to a chart sheet, which is a
separate sheet in a workbook that stores a chart.
Inserting a Chart

Under Charts
Click group select
the chart type
Insert tab you want
Chart Types
Three Basic Patterns that run through most
Chart Types
Steps in Creating a Chart
Creating a Chart
Basic Chart Elements
Formatting a Chart

After you have created your chart, the Ribbon


displays the Chart Tools contextual tab that will
help you to format a chart, these are:

Chart Tools Design tab – used to design and


modify a chart

Chart Tools Layout tab – used to layout the chart

Chart Tools Format tab – used to format a chart


Name Function

Change Chart type Changes to a different type of chart

Save As Template Saves the formatting and layout of the chart

Switch Row/Column Swaps the data over the axis

Select Data Changes the data range included in the chart

Chart Layouts Displays the different pre-designed chart layouts

Chart Styles Displays the different pre-designed chart color


combinations
Move Chart Moves the chart t another sheet or Chart Sheet
Name Function

Format Selection Fine-tunes formatting for the selected chart element

Reset to Match Style Clears the custom formatting of the selected chart element

Picture Inserts a picture from file

Shapes Inserts ready-made shapes

Text Box Inserts a textbox into the document

Chart Title Adds, removes or positions the chart title

Axis Titles Adds, removes or positions the text used to label each
axis
Legend Adds, removes or positions the legend
Name Function

Data labels Adds, removes or positions data labels

Data Table Adds a data table to the chart

Axes Changes the formatting and layout of each axis

Gridlines Turns gridlines on and off

Plot Area Turns the plot area on and off

Chart Wall Formats the chart wall

Chart Floor Formats the chart floor


Name Function

3-D Rotation Changes the 3-D viewpoint of the chart

Trendline Adds a trendline to the chart

Lines Adds other lines to the chart

Up-Down Bars Adds up-down bars to the chart

Error Bars Adds error bars to the chart

Properties Show chart properties


Name Function

Format Selection Fine-tunes formatting for the selected chart element

Reset to Match Style Clears the custom formatting of the selected chart element

Shape Fill Fills the selected shape with solid color, gradient, picture
or texture
Shape Outline Specifies the color, line, width and style of the outline

Change Shape Changes the shape of the drawing

WordArt Quickstyles Chooses visual style for the text

Text Fill Fills a text with a color


ea
Name Function

Text Outline Specifies the color, width and line style

Text Effects Applies a visual effect to the text

Object Position Positions the object on the selected page

Bring to front Brings the selected object in front of all other objects

Send to Back Sends the selected object behind all other objects

Text Wrapping Changes the way texts wraps around the selected
objects
Align Aligns the edges of multiple selected objects
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Name Function

Group Groups object together so that they are treated as a single


object
Rotate Rotates or flips the selected object

Shape Height Changes the height of the shape or picture

Shape width Changes the width of the shape or picture


Moving a Chart

To move a chart
by clicking on the
border of the chart
and dragging to a
new location.
Resizing a Chart

To resize a
chart, click
on the dots
in the
border of
the chart
and drag.
Moving and Resizing a Chart
Sparklines

• A line sparkline is a line chart


Sparkline that appears within one cell.
s are mini • A column sparkline is a
charts that column chart that appears
within one cell.
you can • A win/loss sparkline inserts
insert into a win/loss chart, which tracks
a cell. gains and losses, within one
cell.
Creating a Sparkline

To create a sparkline, first select the range


where you want to insert the sparkline then
Insert tab > Sparkline Groups then click the
button corresponding to the type
of of sparkline you want to
create.
Inserting Sparklines
Examples of line, column, and win/loss
sparklines:
Activity 1: Laboratory Exercise

- Create a workbook using the data below. Use pie


and bar/column charts to represent data.
Month Bears Dolphins Whales

Jan 8 150 80

Feb 54 77 54

Mar 93 32 100

Apr 116 11 76

May 137 6 93

Jun 184 1 72
Assignment

1. Create a new worksheet.


2. Type the following data and create your own
choice of graph then format it.

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