Microsoft® Office System Plain & Simple -- 2003 Edition

Chapter 8. Presenting Your Data

In this section

• Charting Your Data

• Formatting a Chart

• Customizing a Chart

• Changing the Order of a Series

• Adding or Removing Data

• Adding a Trendline to a Data Series

• Adding Error Bars

• Working with a 3-D Chart

• Moving a Chart

• Saving a Custom Chart Design

You’ve created the worksheets and analyzed the data, and, depending on the nature of your work, that might be all you need to do. However, if you have to present your data—at a company meeting, for example, where you might show the data in a slide presentation; as part of an annual financial report; or in a newspaper or magazine article—the most effective way to do so is to use a chart. The visual appeal of a chart will hold your audience’s interest more closely than will the ...