September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
30h 58m
English
Because charts are linked to worksheet cells, you can use them to construct visual what-if scenarios with your data. For example, if you set up a break-even analysis in a worksheet and then plot fixed costs, variable costs, total costs, and gross margin in a chart, you can change fixed-cost assumptions in the worksheet and immediately see the effect on the gross-margin line in the chart.
You can also reverse this process in two-dimensional bar, column, line, and xy (scatter) charts. You can drag chart data markers—including picture markers—up or down and have Excel adjust the underlying worksheet. In the break-even analysis, for example, you can drag the chart's gross-margin line up so that it crosses ...
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