How Do You Make Graphs In Microsoft Office?
A graph is a diagram used to visually represent data. Microsoft Office refers to graphs as “charts,” and is capable of making many different types of charts, including line charts, bar charts, and pie charts. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel all have the ability to insert a chart in a document they create, however, it is Excel that actually takes the data and turns it into a chart for all three programs. Word and PowerPoint merely link to Excel during the process and then display the results in their own documents. Open Excel. In the blank workbook that appears on the screen, enter the data for your graph in individual cells, placing the horizontal axis labels down the first column, starting with row two, and the data in the cells to the right of the labels. If your graph has more than one data series, add series labels across the tops of the columns in the first row. See the illustration for an example of the format. Click and drag to select all the cells that contain labels and d
