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How to create charts in Microsoft Excel

Easy to follow steps to make these charts

Excel offers far more tools for calculating trends, deciphering profits, creating numerical formats and visual data.

These are simple guidelines on how to create charts in Microsoft Excel.

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Steps

Charts are used to display series of numeric data in a graphical format to make it easier to understand large quantities of data and the relationship between different series of data.

To create a chart in Excel, you start by entering the numeric data for the chart on a worksheet. Then you can plot that data into a chart by selecting the chart type that you want to use on the Insert tab, in the Charts group.

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In older versions of Excel such as Excel 2003, 2000, and 98 do the following:

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