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Creating and editing your chart

Creating and editing your chart - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Creating and editing your chart

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to talk about how to create and edit a chart. So the first thing I want you to do is insert a new chart. The chart type we're going to pick is a 2D column chart. I'm going to click on the insert ribbon tab. I'm going to go to the column icon over here. I'll click the down arrow and I'll click this first column chart right here. Now, right now the chart is blank. It has no data in it, so we're going to have to add that data ourselves. The doorway into editing data on a chart is always the same, and this is the one that I use. I'm going to right click into the chart and click select data. You're going to find we're going to do that a lot in this course, so make sure to take time to memorize that action. Once inside select data, we have a lot of options of what we can do with this chart. Let's add our first series to it. I'm going to click on the add button right here. Now we have two…

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