Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

8. Creating Charts

Charts

A chart is a graphic representation of data. A chart can be embedded in a worksheet (Figure 1) or can be a chart sheet of its own (Figure 2).

Figure 1. Here’s a 3-D stacked column chart embedded in a worksheet file.

Figure 2. Here’s a 3-D pie chart on a chart sheet of its own.

With Microsoft Excel, you can create many different types of charts. The 3-D stacked column chart and 3-D pie chart shown here (Figures 1 and 2) are only two examples. Since each type of chart has at least one variation and you can customize any ...