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Creating Other Chart Types

A few other chart types that you can create in Excel are organization charts and picture charts.

Excel's organization chart program lets you illustrate the structure of authority and responsibility (chain of command) in an organization. You don't have to draw boxes and lines with the program because it automatically inserts the boxes and lines for you. After you build the organization chart, you can change the font, font size, and font color for the text in the boxes; the box style; the line style; and the background color for the chart.

A picture chart contains pictures in each data series instead of a solid color or pattern.

Creating an Org Chart

The Organization Chart feature enables you to build an organization ...