Excel Graphics and Charts

Many people, especially when they are new to Excel, create worksheets that contain only numbers, text, and formulas. Excel worksheets can contain much more than these elemental items. You can add all sorts of graphics to your worksheets or you can create amazing charts from your data. These items—graphics and charts—can liven up your data and provide some exciting ways to make your information mean even more.

Excel provides a variety of tools that you can use to insert graphics, modify those graphics, make them look exactly the way you want, and then print them out. Closely related to working with graphics, Excel gives you the ability to create dozens of types of charts, adjust their appearance in excruciating detail, and print those masterpieces.

There are many advantages to the graphics and charting power provided, chief of which is that you can use Excel's tools to create just about anything you can imagine. While nobody would claim that Excel is an adequate substitute for a dedicated graphics problem, its tools can meet most day-to-day graphics needs—especially when it comes to presenting or augmenting your data. In short, Excel's graphics and charting power can help you present your data in a more understandable, accessible manner.

Along with the advantages there is one major disadvantage—the capabilities of Excel's tools can be a bit confusing. While you might be able to imagine what you want to do with either graphics or charting, figuring out how to use the tools to implement what you've imagined can be daunting.

That's where Excel Graphics and Charts can benefit you. Here you'll find plenty of information about both graphics and charts, but it is not the dry, lifeless information you'll often find in computer books. Instead you'll find lots of implementation help and hands-on examples, along with the necessary background information.

There are two versions of Excel Graphics and Charts: One for users of Excel versions prior to Excel 2007 and another for users of Excel 2007. (Huge changes in the user interface were introduced with the release of Excel 2007. Those changes affected how graphics and charts are added to worksheets and how they are managed.) The Excel 2003 version is over 150 pages in length and the Excel 2007 version is over 130 pages in length. These books are no lightweights; there's a lot of meat here!

Regardless of which version you get, you'll discover how easy it is to add graphics to your worksheets, create charts, work with the tools that affect them both, and overall enhance the data you use in Excel. Just take a look at the table of contents for both versions.

Excel Graphics and Charts contains a ton of information. We've tried to make sure that it contains anything and everything that you'll find useful as you work with the graphics and charting capabilities of Excel. The book zeroes in on what you need to know and provides tons of ideas on how you can enhance your worksheets with both graphics and charts.

Excel Graphics and Charts is provided in two formats: a Microsoft Word document and an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) document. You don't have to decide which you want, however; both versions are included. In these formats you enjoy the following features:

• The ability to view, search, and print the book.
• Screen shots that illustrate what you see in Excel as you follow the step-by-step instructions.
• The ability to select and copy sections of text, such as macro code.
• Hyperlinks to internal content (in the book itself) and referenced resources on the Web.

Since the electronic book is provided in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, you need to either have Acrobat or the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Many computer systems already have the reader installed. If you do not, you can get it free, directly from Adobe.

Excel Graphics and Charts provides a valuable resource for focused information that can't be matched by any other single source or computer book.

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Excel 2007 Graphics and Charts	$29.99		$24.99		(3.0 MB)
Excel 2003 Graphics and Charts	$29.99		$24.99		(2.7 MB)

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