Creating a chart

The first step in creating a chart is to enter or compute your data within a worksheet.

Preparing your data

There are ways to organise your data to make it easier to build a chart.

Making the chart

Follow this process to make your chart:

  1. Select the range of data you want to include in the chart, and click on the Chart button. The data must be in number cells.
  2. The chart menu will appear, from which you should choose the type of chart you want.
  3. A dialogue box for that type of chart will appear. Choose the type you want by clicking on the icons, and enter any other details necessary in the dialogue box.
  4. Click OK. Your chart will be generated and appear on the worksheet in its own frame, just beneath the data on which it was based. In some cases (such as low-resolution screen modes) this may be off the screen.

Once you have made your chart, you can edit and customise it in certain ways. See:

Editing charts

Updating chart data

Customising charts