Producing Charts in Word, Excel

and PowerPoint

09/04/2015

Producing Charts in
Excel
Teri Browett

Contents

Creating Charts
Common Chart Types
Charting Techniques
Chart Object Formatting
Creating charts in Word and Ppt

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Creating a Chart Excel

Embedding a chart:
Select the data
from the Insert tab of the Ribbon,
choose the type of chart

In a new sheet:
Select the data
Press F11

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Types of Chart

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Technical Charts

COMMON CHART TYPES

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Variation Within A
Chart Type
Within each chart type there are chart
subtypes, including 3-D charts. Here are a
few variations of a clustered column chart,
including a clustered cylinder, 3-D
pyramid and 100% stacked cone.

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Manipulating
Charts
Resizing mouse or resize buttons
(Format tab)
Moving drag within a sheet (Word
& PowerPoint) or Move to a new
sheet (Design tab, Excel only).
Can also copy/cut and paste (click on
edge of chart area)

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MANIPULATING CHARTS
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CHART LAYOUT
ELEMENTS
The chart title
Text boxes and shapes
The Legend
A Trendline
Error Bars

Data Labels

Data Table
The axes titles
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Horizontal and
vertical gridlines

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Layout Tab

Labels, Axes, background

and Analysis

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CHART OBJECT FORMATTING

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Chart Objects
Chart
background
Chart area

Plot area

Series

Vertical and
horizontal
axes
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Chart formatting
Shape Fill - solid colour, gradient, picture and
texture, change the inside of a shape.
Shape Outline - colour, weight and pattern of
lines or the outlines of shapes.
Shape Effects modify the entire shape by
adding different surface textures, shadows,
glow effects,soft edges, bevel effects or 3-D
effects.
Shape Styles modify shapes with various
combinations of shape fill, outline and effect.
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The Format dialog

box
Select the object
More than one click
takes you into smaller
objects i.e. one click
for whole series and
another for one data
point

Right-click the object

to format it
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Variation in the
Format Dialog Box

Producing Charts in Word, Excel

and PowerPoint

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In Word or
PowerPoint
from the Insert tab of the Ribbon,
choose the type of chart
A sample chart is created and Excel
is opened with sample data

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Adding a Chart on a
Slide

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Animating charts in Ppt

Creating a chart template
Further Techniques

EXTRAS
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Save as Template

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Use a Template
From the Insert
Chart dialog box
Click the Templates
folder
Select your Template
(hover over the icon to
see the filename)

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More than one chart

type
London Climate
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60

20
50
15
C

mm

40
30

10

20
5
10
0

0
Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Months
Maximum Temperature (C)

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Minimum Temperature (C)

Monthly Rainfall (mm)

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Secondary Access
Series Options
Double click the series

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Animating a chart
Select the chart
Click on the
Animations Tab
Click on Appear in the
Animations Group.
Click Effect Options
Choose By Series or
Category
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Statistics help
http://workspace.nottingham.ac.uk/
display/ResearchTrainingResources/A
nytime%2C+anywhere+courses#
http://workspace.nottingham.ac.uk/
display/SVMSStats/Overview

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Contents

Creating Charts
Common Chart Types
Charting Techniques
Chart Object Formatting
Creating charts in Word and Ppt

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Extras
Animating charts in Ppt
Creating a chart template
Further Techniques

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