Microsoft Office Inside Out (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

Chapter 14

Enhancing worksheets with charts

Understanding Excel charts

Creating charts

Modifying a chart

Working with chart elements

Creating a combination chart

There is little doubt that Excel’s many tools and features allow you 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 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. ...