
IN THIS CHAPTER
Introducing Charts in
Excel 2007
1
What’s New in Excel 2007 Charts
The charting engine has been completely rewritten
in Excel 2007. After 15 years of the same tired-
looking charts, you can now create stunning charts
with just a few mouse clicks.
The following list summarizes the new charting
features in Excel 2007:
■ To create a chart, you usually start with one of
the seven new galleries on the ribbon’s Insert
tab. The first six galleries offer column, line,
pie, bar, area, and scatter charts. The remain-
ing chart types—stock, surface, doughnut, bub-
ble, and radar—are grouped in the Other
Charts gallery.
■ You can display the All Charts gallery ...