Excel Lesson 10 Using Advanced Chart Features Microsoft Office 2010 Advanced Cable / Morrison 1

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Objectives Switch rows and columns in charts. Add a data table to a chart. Add data labels to data markers. Create sparklines. 222

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Objectives (continued) Design combination charts. Construct a gauge chart. Create a chart template. Apply a chart template. 3

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Vocabulary 444 chart floor chart template combination chart data labels data markers data point data series data table gauge chart horizontal gridlines primary axis secondary axis

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Vocabulary (continued) 555 sparklines vertical gridlines x-axis y-axis

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Introduction Charts are a great solution for presenting data in Excel graphically. – Simple to make and format – Can quickly change one type of chart to another Excel has many chart formatting features. 6

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Understanding How Charts Are Created Charts are created from data in a worksheet. – Data is typically arranged in columns and rows 7 Worksheet with columns and rows of data

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Understanding How Charts Are Created (continued) The type of chart determines how the data in the rows and columns will appear in the chart. 8 Line chart created from worksheet data

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Switching Rows and Columns in Charts You can switch the order of how chart data is displayed in a chart. – Use Switch Row/Column button on the Design tab 9 Chart with rows and columns switched

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Adding a Data Table A data table displays the data used to create a chart. – Appears below the chart – Lets you quickly view the worksheet data while looking at the chart data series A legend is a list that shows the colors and symbols used in a chart. – Can appear as part of the data table or separately 10

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Adding a Data Table (continued) Chart with data table and legend 11

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Adding Data Labels to Data Series A data label can appear as numbers or text next to each data marker in the data series. The data markers represent where the actual data would be in the chart. Each place where the line segments start or stop is a data point. – Can be displayed with a data marker 12

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Adding Data Labels to Data Series (continued) Completed chart with data labels 13

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Creating Sparklines A sparkline is a miniature chart that can be displayed in a single row or column of data. 14 Types of sparklines

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Creating a Combination Chart Combination chart: shows data on two y- axes – Primary axis: y-axis on the left side of chart – Secondary axis: y-axis on the right side of chart 15

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Creating a Combination Chart (continued) Combination chart 16

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Creating Gauge Charts A gauge chart shows the amount of progress accomplished toward a goal. Horizontal gridlines are horizontal lines within the chart. Vertical gridlines are vertical lines within the chart. Chart floor is the foundation, or base, of a 3- D chart. 17

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Creating Gauge Charts (continued) Gauge chart 18

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Creating Chart Templates To create a chart template: – Create and format a chart as desired – Save the chart as a template Chart templates are saved in the same default location as the preformatted chart templates. 19

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Applying a Chart Template After creating a chart template, you can apply it to new charts that you create. Applying a chart template to a chart will save time. – Will not need to change each chart feature individually 20

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Summary In this lesson, you learned: You can switch rows and columns of data in a chart. A data table that shows the data used to create a chart can be added to the chart. Data labels can be added to data markers in a data series. 21

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Summary (continued) A sparkline is a miniature chart that can be displayed in a single row or column of data. You can design a combination chart that has two y-axes. You can construct gauge charts that show progress towards a goal. 22

Excel Lesson 10 Cable / MorrisonMicrosoft Office 2010 Advanced Summary (continued) A chart template can be created for a chart design that will be used repeatedly. Chart templates can be applied to charts after they are created. 23