Microsoft® Office Access™ 2007 Plain & Simple

Chapter 12. Creating Charts in Access

In this section:

• Creating a Chart

• Formatting Chart Elements

• Customizing Chart Axes

• Add Information to a Chart

• Changing a Chart’s Type

When you enter data into a Microsoft Office Access database table, you create a record of important events, whether they are individual product sales, sales for an hour of a day, or product prices. What a long list of table values in cells can’t communicate easily, however, are the overall trends in the data. The best way to communicate trends in a large collection of data is by creating a chart that summarizes data visually.

You have a great deal of control over your chart’s appearance—you can change the color of any chart element, modify a chart’s type to better summarize the underlying ...