Excel Charts

Creating Charts

In Microsoft Excel, you can represent numbers in a chart. On the Insert tab, you can choose from a variety of chart types, including column, line, pie, bar, area, and scatter. The basic procedure for creating a chart is the same no matter what type of chart you choose. As you change your data, your chart will automatically update.

You select a chart type by choosing an option from the Insert tab's Chart group. After you choose a chart type, such as column, line, or bar, you choose a chart sub-type. For example, after you choose Column Chart, you can choose to have your chart represented as a two-dimensional chart, a three-dimensional chart, a cylinder chart, a cone chart, or a pyramid chart. There are further sub-types within each of these categories. As you roll your mouse pointer over each option, Excel supplies a brief description of each chart sub-type.

Creating Charts

In Microsoft Excel, you can represent numbers in a chart. On the Insert tab, you can choose from a variety of chart types, including column, line, pie, bar, area, and scatter. The basic procedure for creating a chart is the same no matter what type of chart you choose. As you change your data, your chart will automatically Update. This lesson teaches you how to create a chart in Excel.

* Create a Chart
* Apply a Chart Layout
* Add Labels
* Switch Data
* Change the Style of a Chart
* Change the Size and Position of a Chart
* Move A Chart to a Chart Sheet
* Change the Chart Type

Creating Excel Functions, Filling Cells, and Printing

By using functions, you can quickly and easily make many useful calculations, such as finding an average, the highest number, the lowest number, and a count of the number of items in a list. Microsoft Excel has many functions you can use. You can also use Microsoft Excel to fill cells automatically with a series.For example, you can have Excel automatically fill your worksheet with days of the week, months of the year, years, or other types of series.

A header is text that appears at the top of every page of your printed worksheet. A footer is text that appears at the bottom of every page of your printed worksheet. You can use a header or footer to display among other things titles, page numbers, or logos. Once you have completed your Excel worksheet, you may want to print it. This lesson teaches you how to use functions, how to create a series, how to create headers and footers, and how to print.

* Using Reference Operators
* Understanding Functions
* Fill Cells Automatically
* Create Headers and Footers
* Set Print Options
* Print

Entering Excel Formulas and Formatting Data

A major strength of Excel is that you can perform mathematical calculations and format your data. In this lesson, you learn how to perform basic mathematical calculations and how to format text and numerical data.

* Set the Enter Key Direction
* Perform Mathematical Calculations
* AutoSum
* Perform Automatic Calculations
* Align Cell Entries
* Perform Advanced Mathematical Calculations
* Copy, Cut, Paste, and Cell Addressing
* Insert and Delete Columns and Rows
* Create Borders
* Merge and Center
* Add Background Color
* Change the Font, Font Size, and Font Color
* Move to a New Worksheet
* Bold, Italicize, and Underline
* Work with Long Text
* Change a Column's Width
* Format Numbers

Entering Text and Numbers in Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is an electronic spreadsheet that runs on a personal computer. You can use it to organize your data into rows and columns. You can also use it to perform mathematical calculations quickly. This tutorial teaches Microsoft Excel basics. Although knowledge of how to navigate in a Windows environment is helpful, this tutorial was created for the computer novice. This lesson will introduce you to the Excel window. You use the window to interact with Excel.

* The Microsoft Excel Window
* The Microsoft Office Button
* The Quick Access Toolbar
* The Title Bar
* The Ribbon
* Worksheets
* The Formula Bar
* The Status Bar
* Move Around a Worksheet
* Go To Cells Quickly
* Select Cells
* Enter Data
* Edit a Cell
* Wrap Text
* Delete a Cell Entry
* Save a File
* Close Excel