This document discusses creating and formatting charts in Excel 2007. It covers how to choose an appropriate chart type based on the data, such as using a column chart to show relative amounts over time. It also describes how to select data, insert a chart, and use quick layouts and styles to format the chart. The goal is to present data visually using charts.

1. Excel 2007
Objective 4: Presenting
Data Visually

2. Lesson Skills
 By
the end of the lesson you should be
familiar with:
 How-to create a chart from data
 How to choose a chart layout
 How-to choose and apply a chart style

3. Create and Format
Charts
Create a chart, chart types, formatting a chart
using styles

4. Charts
 To create a chart
1. Select the data range you want to use to
create a chart
2. Click the Insert tab, lick a chart type
button in the Charts group
3. Choose a chart type appropriate to the
data you have selected

5. Chart Types
Chart Type Could be used to:
Column Show relative amounts for one or more values at
different points in time; displays vertically
Line Show growth trends over time
Pie Show proportions or percentages of parts to a whole
Bar Show relative amounts for one or more values at
different points in time; displays horizontally
Area Show differences between several sets of data over
time
Scatter Show values that are not in categories and where
each data point is a distinct measurement

6. Chart Practice
 Recreatethe table below in a blank
worksheet
A B C D
1 Month Chicago Philly New York
2 January 10,000 9,000 8,000
3 February 5,000 7,000 6,000
4 March 15,000 4,000 4,000

7. Chart Practice
1. Select the data from the worksheet you
just created
2. Click your Insert tab, then click a chart
type button in the Charts group
 Experiment with different chart types to see
what best suits the data you have used

8. Using Quick Layouts to Format
Charts
3. With the chart
selected, click the
Chart Tools Design
tab, then click the
More button in the
Chart Layouts
group
4. Click a chart layout
in the gallery that
show all the details
you wish to include

9. Using Quick Styles to Format
Charts
5. With a chart
selected, click the
Chart Tools Design
tab, then click the
More button in the
Chart Styles group
6. Click a chart style
in the gallery