Chapter 16. Working with Charts

In this chapter

Understanding Charts 492

Creating a New Chart 494

Working with Chart Templates 496

Modifying Chart Data 497

Controlling How the Chart and Document Interact 500

Changing the Chart Type 501

Working with Chart Elements 504

Applying Chart Styles 521

Formatting Individual Chart Elements 522

Formatting Chart Text 529

Troubleshooting 531

Understanding Charts

A chart is a graphical representation of numeric data. Charts can summarize data and help people make sense out of it. (Some people call them graphs, and in fact, so did Microsoft up until this version of Word; the program that was used to create charts was called Microsoft Graph.)

To work with charts in Word, you should have a general grasp of Word’s ...

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