Objectives, chapter 4

• Distinguish between the different types of charts.
• Discuss the possible use of different types of charts.
• Distinguish between a chart embedded in a worksheet and one in a separate chart sheet.
• Create/modifiy charts.
• Enhance a chart using lins, objects and shapes.
• Distinguish between data series specified in rows and columns.
• Describe how a chart can be statistically accurate yet totally misleading.
• Create a compound document including a chart and a worksheet.

4.1, Basics of Charts

• It is quite easy to produce a simple chart from numeric data.
• Excel does this for us, we only need to specify a few parameters.
• We have done some of this in word and powerpoint.
• Rule of thumb KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid!

Please do Hands On exercise 1, pages 149 - 157. No homework due today.