Charting Terminology
Before you start creating charts, familiarize yourself with the following terminology:
Data Series The bars, pie wedges, lines, orother elements that represent plotted values in a chart. For example, a chart might show a set of similar bars that reflects a series of values for the same item. The bars in the series would all have the same pattern. If you have more than one pattern of bars, each pattern would represent a separate data series. For instance, charting the sales for Territory 1 versus Territory 2 would require two data series—one for each territory. Often, data series correspond to rows of data in your worksheet.
Categories Categories reflect the number of elements in a series. You might have two data series ...
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