Creating Data to Be Graphed

If you create business documents with Word, you're likely to encounter many places where charts can help you communicate more effectively: summaries of results and projections, coverage of trends, changes in the value of assets and investments, and so on. In this chapter, you'll learn several ways to provide the source data for a chart. In many cases, the easiest is to first enter your data in a Word table, as shown in Figure 15.1.

Figure 15.1. Creating data for charting.

→ For more information on working with charts, see Chapter 12, “Structuring and Organizing Information with Tables,” p. 387.

To create a chart from ...

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