Microsoft® Excel® 2010: Step by Step

Chapter 10. Creating Charts and Graphics

Chapter at a Glance

In this chapter, you will learn how to
✓	Creating Charts.
✓	Customizing the Appearance of Charts.
✓	Finding Trends in Your Data.
✓	Summarizing Your Data by Using Sparklines.
✓	Creating Dynamic Charts by Using PivotCharts.
✓	Creating Diagrams by Using SmartArt.
✓	Creating Shapes and Mathematical Equations.

When you enter data into a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet, you create a record of important events, whether they are individual sales, sales for an hour of a day, or the price of a product. What a list of values in cells can’t communicate easily, however, is the overall trends in the data. The ...