Chapter 8. Chart Types—Conventional and Exceptional

You have studied the previous chapters and found the recommended practices interesting or important enough to implement the step-by-step instructions? Excellent: then you won’t find it difficult to get the most out of the following, primarily practical, information.

Having laid the most critical theoretical foundations for designing attractive and dynamic charts, in this chapter I’ll describe the technical development and editing of the most commonly used chart types. You will learn what is regarded as the default in Excel 2007 and how you can use some tricks to obtain rather exceptional results that aren’t considered as “typical Excel.”

Within the descriptions, you will find several charts that ...

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