14. Charts and Graphs

Numeric information is often easiest to understand when presented graphically. In Excel 2011, you can create 73 different styles of charts, including bar, column, line, area, pie, scatter, bubble, radar, and stock charts—and many of them can be 3-D.

After Excel has generated a chart, you can tailor it to suit your needs. You can add, edit, or delete a title, axis and data labels, legends, and gridlines. You can also add, change, or remove color, patterns, or shading, as well as change the scale, labeling, and look of the axes. If you later edit a chart’s source data, the chart will automatically ...

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