CA202
Spreadsheet Application
Creating Charts
Lecture # 10
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Objectives
✔ Create and customize a chart.
✔ Perform trend line analysis.
✔ Create a dynamic chart using Pivot Charts.
✔ Create diagrams to illustrate relationships
and processes.
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Why Charts?
• List of values in cells can’t communicate easily the
overall trends in the data.
• The best way to communicate trends in a large collection
of data is through charts and graphs, which summarize
data visually.
• you can have future sales and add a trend line to the
graph representing that prediction.
• you can create a PivotChart that reflects the contents
and organization of the associated PivotTable
• You can also create diagrams, such as organizational
charts, that are useful in many organizations.
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Chapter Objective
• In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create a
chart and customize its elements, find
trends in your overall data, create dynamic
charts, and create and format diagrams.
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Creating a Chart
• To present your Excel
data graphically, you
select the cells you want
to represent graphically
and then click the Chart
Wizard
on the
Standard toolbar to
launch the Chart Wizard.
• You have Chart sub-type
section
• You also have Press and
Hold to View Sample
button.
CreateChart
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Customizing Chart Labels and
Numbers
• After you create a chart, you can
customize its elements to conform to a
particular color scheme, fill effect, or
border pattern. You can also change the
appearance of the labels and numbers in
your chart.
• Double-click the label to open a
formatting dialog box. Add Title, change
decimal no.
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Finding Trends in Your Data
• You can use the data in Excel workbooks
to discover how your business has
performed in the past, but you can also
have Excel make its best guess as to
future sales if the current trend continues.
• Right Click on September Bar and Click
Add Trend Line
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Creating a Dynamic Chart Using
PivotCharts
• You can also create dynamic charts, or
PivotCharts, to reflect the contents and
organization of a PivotTable.
• You can create a PivotChart in two ways:
– By clicking a cell in an existing PivotTable and
then clicking the Chart Wizard button on the
Standard toolbar, or
– By selecting the appropriate option button on
the last page of the PivotTable and PivotChart
Wizard.
Dynamic
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Creating Diagrams
• Excel has just the tool to
create those recycle,
network, or organizational
structure diagrams:
• Insert  Diagram …
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Creating Diagrams
Organization chart Used to show hierarchical relationships, such as
within a company.
Cycle diagram
Used to show a process with a continuous cycle.
Radial diagram
Used to show the relationships of a core element.
Pyramid diagram
Used to show foundation-based relationships,
such as a series of skills.
Venn diagram
Used to show the areas of overlap among sets of
items.
Target diagram
Used to show steps toward a goal.
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Chapter 10 Key Points
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You can use charts to summarize large sets of data in an
easy-to-follow visual format.
You’re not stuck with the chart you create; if you want to
change it, you can.
Adding chart labels and a legend makes your chart much
easier to follow.
If your chart data represents a series of events over time
(monthly or yearly sales), you can use trendline analysis to
extrapolate future events based on the past data.
A PivotChart lets you rearrange your chart on the fly,
emphasizing different aspects of the same data without
having to create a new chart for each view.
Excel lets you create and modify common business and
organizational diagrams, such as organization charts and
process diagrams, quickly.
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