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Advanced Microsoft® Excel® 2007, Part II: Charts and Graphics

Advanced Microsoft® Excel® 2007, Part II: Charts and Graphics

Did you know that you can create custom charts in Microsoft Excel? In this course for intermediate users, you'll learn how to enhance your work with charts and graphs that illustrate the meaning of statistics. You'll also learn about a variety of other graphical elements that can help add interest and variety, including WordArt, clip art, scanned photos, drawn objects, and SmartArt diagrams.

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Lesson 1: Microsoft Excel Tutorial: Charts and Graphs: The Basics

Excel charts and graphs can often express the meaning behind numeric data much better than a table of numbers. In this lesson, you'll learn more about the manipulation of charts in Microsoft Excel.

Lesson 2: Microsoft Excel Tutorial: Manipulation of Charts

A chart can convey a different meaning depending on how it's set up. In this lesson, you'll learn how to manipulate Excel charts to change the message they present, including modifying the data ranges, using different chart types, and more.

Lesson 3: Microsoft Excel Tutorial: Formatting Charts

You can make custom charts in Excel, changing everything from the color of each pie slice to the numeric scale on which an axis is based. In this lesson, you'll learn about a wide range of formatting options and opportunities when using charts and graphs in Excel.

Lesson 4: Microsoft Excel Tutorial: Charts and Graphics Round-Up

Excel is best known for number-crunching; however, it also contains most of the same graphics features as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. In this lesson, you'll learn to add photos, clip art, WordArt, and more as floating objects in your workbook.

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What You'll Learn

  • Create a variety of types of charts
  • Change a chart's type and data range
  • Change the colors and appearances of chart elements
  • Format chart backgrounds, walls, and floors
  • Insert digital photos
  • Insert and format clip art
  • Create SmartArt diagrams
  • Draw and format lines and shapes
  • Create WordArt

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