To start making your chart, you need to highlight the data that will make up the chart.
- So highlight the BBC1 programmes and the viewing figures
- From the menu bar, click on Insert
- From the drop down list, click Chart
When you click on Insert > Chart, the Chart wizard appears. It looks like the one below:
There is a four step process to go through with the wizard. The first step is to select a chart type. The Chart Type showing in the image is a column chart. To see what this will look like, click the button "Press and Hold to View Sample". Click with the left mouse button, and keep the button held down. You see a preview of what the chart will look like.
Let go of the left mouse button and you are returned to the chart types. The chart we want is Bar. So click on Bar in the Chart Types list. You'll see some different Bar types under Chart Sub Types. Make sure the first one is selected.
When you have selected your Chart sub-type, click the Next button at the bottom, and you'll be taken to Step 2 of the Wizard. Your dialogue box will look like the one below:
There's not much for us to do in step 2 of the wizard. But click the Rows radio button and see what happens. Set it back to Columns when you're done.
The Data Range is the important part of Step 2. This refers to the data that you want in your spreadsheet. As we already highlighted the data we wanted in our chart, the Data Range text area is already filled out for us. But you can specify a different range here, if you wanted. But leave it alone for now, and just press the Next button.
Your are taken to Step 3 of the wizard, and the dialogue box now looks like the following one:
There a whole lot for us to do in Step 3 of the Wizard! But we're basically formatting the chart to how we want it.
Notice the three text boxes: Chart Title, Category (X) Axis, Value (Y) Axis. Enter the following in these text boxes:
Chart Title: Viewing Figures
Category (X) Axis: Programmes
Value (Y) Axis: Millions
Your dialogue box will look like the one below:
Don't worry that the chart in the picture looks a little squashed. We'll format it some more.
From the Tab Strips along the top, click on Legend. Your dialogue box will look something like this one:
Untick the box that says "Shows legend" to get your dialogue box looking like the one above. Then click the Next button at the bottom. You will be taken to Step 4 of the wizard, the final step. Your dialogue box will look like the one below.
This is where you get to specify the Chart Location. In others words, where do you want to put it? We'll put out chart on a new Sheet.
So click the black down-pointing arrow, just to the right of "As object in: Sheet1". From the drop down list, select Sheet 2. Then click the Finish button at the bottom. The wizard will close down, and your are taken to Sheet 2 of your spreadsheet, and your new chart. Your chart will look something like the one below.
OK, we're going to make a chart out of the BBC1 Viewing figures we created in the last part. The chart we're going to create will look like the one below, when it's finished.
To start making your chart, you need to highlight the data that will make up the chart.
- So highlight the BBC1 programmes and the viewing figures
- From the menu bar, click on Insert
- From the drop down list, click Chart
When you click on Insert > Chart, the Chart wizard appears. It looks like the one below:
There is a four step process to go through with the wizard. The first step is to select a chart type. The Chart Type showing in the image is a column chart. To see what this will look like, click the button "Press and Hold to View Sample". Click with the left mouse button, and keep the button held down. You see a preview of what the chart will look like.
Let go of the left mouse button and you are returned to the chart types. The chart we want is Bar. So click on Bar in the Chart Types list. You'll see some different Bar types under Chart Sub Types. Make sure the first one is selected.
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