Creating and formatting charts:

Create a chart

1. Select the data for which you want to create a chart.

2. Click INSERT > Recommended Charts.
3. On the Recommended Charts tab, scroll through the
list of charts that Excel recommends for your data,
and click any chart to see how your data will look.
If you don’t see a chart you like, click All Charts to
see all the available chart types.
4. When you find the chart you like, click it > OK.
5. Use the Chart Elements, Chart Styles, and Chart
Filters buttons, next to the upper-right corner of the
chart to add chart elements like axis titles or data
labels, customize the look of your chart, or change the
data that is shown in the chart.
6. To access additional design and formatting features,
click anywhere in the chart to add the CHART
TOOLS to the ribbon, and then click the options you
want on the DESIGN and FORMAT tabs.
Types of Charts
There is a list of basic and advanced level of charts used
for different purposes to interpret the data.
Column Chart
Line Chart
Bar Chart
Area chart
Pie chart or Doughnut chart
Surface chart

Coloumn Chart
 Columnchart is a method of displaying data with
categories represented by a rectangle—sometimes called
vertical bar charts. They allow easy comparisons among a
number of items and trends analysis. In general, statistics
and figures are difficult to understand when presented in
tables or written format. Column charts make things easy,
immediate, and understandable

Bar chart

Bar chart bar chart or bar graph is a chart or graph that

presents categorical data with rectangular bars with
heights or lengths proportional to the values that they
represent. The bars can be plotted vertically or
horizontally. A vertical bar chart is sometimes called a
column chart.
Combination Chart
A combination chart is a chart that combines two or more
chart types in a single chart.
To create a combination chart, execute the following steps.
1. Select the range A1:C13.
On the Insert tab, in the Charts group, click the Combo
symbol.

3. Click Create Custom Combo Chart.

The Insert Chart dialog box appears.

4. For the Rainy Days series, choose Clustered Column as
the chart type.
5. For the Profit series, choose Line as the chart type.
6. Plot the Profit series on the secondary axis.
To change a series chart type:

1. In the chart, right-click on one of the selected Cases

columns.
2. In the shortcut menu that appears, click Change Series
Chart Type
3. In the Change Chart Type dialog box, click on the Line
category
4. Next, click on the first Line chart type
 5. Click OK to apply the change, and to close the Change
Chart Type window.

Add series to chart

1. Right click at the chart and select Select Data from
context menu. See screenshot:
2. In the popping out dialog, click Add button. See
screenshot:
3. Then in the Edit Series dialog, specify the Series name
and Series values by selecting the data you need from
the data range. ...
4. Click OK > OK to close dialogs.

Delete a Data Series

Click the chart you want to modify.
Click the Design tab under Chart Tools, and click
the Select Data button.
 Click the data series you want to delete.
Click Remove.
Click ok.

Changing the Axis Scale

Excel includes an impressive graphing capability that can
turn the dullest data into outstanding charts, complete with
all sorts of whiz-bang do-dads to amaze your friends and
confound your enemies. While Excel can automatically
handle many of the mundane tasks associated with
turning raw data into a chart, you may still want to change
some elements of your chart.
For instance, you may want to change the scale Excel
uses along an axis of your chart. (The scale automatically
chosen by Excel may not represent the entire universe of
possibilities you want conveyed in your chart.) You can
change the scale used by Excel by following these steps
in Excel 2007 or Excel 2010:
1. Right-click on the axis whose scale you want to
change. Excel displays a Context menu for the axis.
2. Choose Format Axis from the Context menu. (If there
is no Format Axis choice, then you did not right-click
 on an axis in step 1.) Excel displays the Format Axis
dialog box.
3. Make sure Axis Options is clicked at the left of the
dialog box. (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1. The Axis Options of the Format Axis dialog

box.

4. Adjust the scale settings (top of the dialog box—

Minimum, Maximum, etc.) as desired.
5. Click on OK.
Plot Area
This is the area where your chart data is plotted. The plot
area on a 2D chart contains the data markers, gridlines,
data labels, trendlines, and optional chart items placed in
the chart area. The plot area on a 3D chart contains all the
above items plus the walls, floor, axes, axis titles, and tick-
mark labels in the chart.
The plot area is surrounded by the chart area. The chart
area on a 2D chart contains the axes, the chart title, the
axis titles, and the legend. The chart area on a 3D chart
contains the chart title and the legend. For information
about formatting the chart area, see the ChartArea object.