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Creating charts

Creating charts

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Creating charts

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- [Instructor] On the screen, we're seeing an Excel chart. If you've never worked with this feature in Excel, you might think that's rather difficult. It's going to take some time, doesn't it? No, not really. In fact, many people are surprised by how easy it is to create a chart in Excel. This chart here, which is called a column chart in Excel and by the way, in Excel, we don't use the term graph, we use the term chart, and on the Insert tab up in the ribbon, you see that term charts. We'll be looking at this a bit later. The chart on the right is depicting the data that we see in columns D through I. When you create a chart, you're displaying values, numbers but nearly always when you have data on the screen, you've got a column on the left-hand side and/or a row across the top that helps explain what you're showing. So if we want to create a chart for the data over in columns A and B, we can click and drag to highlight…

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