Tech for You 2015 Office 2013 Tip of the Month

Office® 2013 Tip of the Month – Creating Charts in Excel®
To create a chart from a spreadsheet in Excel® —a bar, pie, or line chart, etc.—first enter data into columns in a worksheet and create and label column headers for the data.

Next, then select Insert > Charts > Chart Type (or > Recommended Charts). Go to Chart Type if you know exactly what you want, or—and this is useful research—check out the Recommended Charts section that offers examples of chart layouts based on the type of data you’re working with.

After you’ve selected the chart type, and the generic version of that chart has been created, go to the Chart Tools menus to customize it. Take some time to look through the Chart Tools section—there are a lot of options for improving the design of your chart.