Microsoft Office 2010 In Depth

14. Enhancing Worksheets with Charts

There is little doubt that Excel’s incredible capabilities provide you with the tools to create complex and meaningful worksheets that serve all sorts of purposes from basic accounting to statistical analysis to complete mathematical mania. Excel has evolved far beyond the early spreadsheet programs that were first available for the personal computer. However, Excel still uses the very same classic spreadsheet geography of columns and rows of numbers used by these earlier programs. All those cells containing values, labels, formulas, and functions can be quite difficult for many people to readily understand. That is where charts come in. Charts provide you with the ability to take a visual snapshot of worksheet ...