Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Choosing Among Word's Extensive Selection of Charts

By default, Graph 2000 displays your information in its default chart format: a 3D column chart using standard colors against a gray background with gridlines and a legend. Graph's default chart makes sense in many situations, but you'll often want something else.

Graph 2000 gives you plenty of choices. For openers, you can choose between 18 different chart types, most with five to eight different variations or sub-types. From there you can modify every feature of the chart—titles, legends, grids, data series, size, placement, and wrapping—and you can use Word 2000's enhanced fill and color capabilities to include gradients, textures, and patterns.

Your first decision, however, must be to determine ...