Chapter 18. Getting Started Making Charts

In This Chapter

Charting overview

How Excel handles charts

Embedded charts versus chart sheets

The parts of a chart

When most people think of Excel, they think of crunching rows and columns of numbers. But as you probably know already, Excel is no slouch when it comes to presenting data visually in the form of a chart. In fact, it’s a safe bet that Excel is the most commonly used software for creating charts.

This chapter presents an introductory overview of the Excel program’s charting ability.

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