6. Working with Charts

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In this chapter, you discover just how easy it is to create and customize charts in Excel 2013. Topics include the following:

→ Creating a chart

→ Changing the chart type

→ Altering the source data range

→ Altering chart options

→ Formatting the plot and chart areas

→ Formatting the axis scale

→ Altering the original data

→ Adding data to charts

→ Adding a legend

Charts are graphical representations of data that enable you to visualize and communicate your data in a more meaningful way than with simple numbers in tables. In Excel, you not only have the capability to easily chart your data, but you can also quickly change ...

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