1. Microsoft Excel

2. Agenda  Announcements  Excel Review  Unit 7 Project  Q & A

3. Assignment Walk-Through Presentation Designing a personal budget spreadsheet using MS Excel 2007.

4. Why are charts good to use?

5. A chart gets your point across — Fast. With a chart you can transform worksheet data to show comparisons, patterns, and trends.

6. What are some types of charts?

8. Which type of chart is best to portray proportion of market share?

9. The pie chart is the best type of chart to use whenever words like percentage or market share appear in the message to be delivered.

10. How do Select a Chart?

11. Selecting a Chart Type Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon In the Charts group, click the Pie button New Perspectives on Microsoft Office 2007: Windows Vista Edition11

12. How to Create a Chart Specify the data series. Select the range of cells to chart. Select the chart type. Insert the chart and designate the chart location. Choose chart options. Change the chart location and size.

13. What can you do to enhance your chart?

14. Formatting a Pie Chart Click the chart to select it In the Labels group on the Chart Tools Layout tab, click the Data Labels button, and then click More Data Label Options New Perspectives on Microsoft Office 2007: Windows Vista Edition14

15. Setting the Pie Slice Colors In pie charts with legends, it’s best to make the slice colors as distinct as possible to avoid confusion Click the pie to select the entire data series, and then click the slice you wish to change Change the fill color New Perspectives on Microsoft Office 2007: Windows Vista Edition15

16. Step 1: Highlight the appropriate data and create the pie chart and add that chart to a new worksheet. Step 2: Add data labels to your pie chart. Step 3: Ensure you also have percentages showing on your pie chart. Highlight data in spreadsheet Add data labels Unit 7 Project

17. Step 4: Add a title to your pie chart Step 5: Rename the worksheet tab to Pie Chart. Unit 7 Project

18. Questions ? ?