Excel 2007 Creating Charts

Objective

Learn to create several types of professional-looking charts. Identify chart objects and learn to modify, add, and format charts to enhance the presentation of your data.

Prerequisite Skills

Comfortable with general Excel capabilities.

(Suggested course: Excel 2007 Getting Started)

Course Description

Could your statistical information be presented more clearly in a graph or chart? Would a chart spice up an upcoming presentation? Would you like to clearly show comparisons such as forecasted to actual, last year to this year, etc.?

Attend this course if you want to:

• Take existing Excel data and display it as a chart directly in the worksheet or on a separate worksheet page.

• Move and size charts to display exactly as you want them.

• Select from several chart types to best present your data.

• Change the chart colors.

• Add titles and legends to your charts.

• Display a data table containing your raw data along with the chart.

• Format your charts by adding/customizing gridlines and trendlines.

• Add labels to your chart data.

• Add new data to an existing chart.

• Hide or delete data in a chart.

• Save a chart as a template so you can apply the same formatting choices to future charts.

• Print charts.

• Add a chart to a Word document or PowerPoint presentation.

Class Length

90 minutes

Delivery Options

• Virtual classroom - public
  ($70 per student; check times and register here)

• Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization)
  ($480 per class; contact us for more details)

• Virtual classroom - one on one
  (Register for a 45-minute 1-on-1 Application Support session. Cost is $70 per student per session.)

• On-site instructor-led
  (Contact us for details)