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Working With Charts

The document provides instructions for creating and formatting charts in Excel based on student grade data. It describes how to insert clustered and pie charts using the provided data, add titles and legends, switch rows and columns, and apply different chart styles. The final step is to save the file with a specific naming convention and send it for grading.

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Working With Charts

The document provides instructions for creating and formatting charts in Excel based on student grade data. It describes how to insert clustered and pie charts using the provided data, add titles and legends, switch rows and columns, and apply different chart styles. The final step is to save the file with a specific naming convention and send it for grading.

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Insert a clustered column chart in cell C17 based on the students in the table, add

a legend at the bottom of the chart.


- Choose cell C17
- Insert Tab
- Chart
- Chart 2-D Clustered Column
- Chart Tool - Design Tab - Select Data - Highlight table (A1:F8)
- Remove (Uncheck) Grade Level from the chart (because we don't want that to show as a part
of the chart itself). Click OK
- Add Chart Element - (plus sign, or find it in the ribbon in the upper left) - Legend - Bottom

Apply Chart Style


- Chart Style 8 [Chart Tools Design Tab - Chart Styles Group]

Give the chart a Chart Title


8 above the chart, name it "Awesome Math Grades
Chart"
- [Chart Tools Design Tab - Chart Title - Above]
- Double-click in the place holder above the chart if one appeared there with a generic title in it

Move a Chart
- Click on Click on the whole chart and move it so it's directly under the data table

Copy and Change Chart Type


- Click on the entire chart (somewhere on the border/perimeter so it's selected) and Copy it
(Control + C)
- Paste (Control + V) a copy and move it next to the original chart so they are side by side.
- With the copy selected, go to [Chart Tools Design Tab - Change Chart Type - Choose a line Chart]

Switching Rows and Columns


- With the line chart selected, go to Chart Tools Design Tab - Switch Row/Column button] see
what happened? The horizontal axis becomes the vertical axis and vice-versa
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Use the data in the Teacher Name and Average GPA columns ONLY to create a
Clustered Column Chart. Then, Position the new chart under the table data
- Insert Tab
- Charts - Column Chart
- Chart 2-D Clustered Column
- Select Data Button
- Chart Data Range = Select columns A through C, then UNCHECK the Students in Class checkbox
(so it doesn't show up in the cart) - Click OK - Drag it under the table data

Add an additional data series (Column D) to the Chart


- Select the chart
- In the table data, there now appears a blue perimeter around the data the chart shows
- Drag the blue perimeter line over to the right one column so it includes column D now

Add the title "GPA" above the column chart and label the vertical axis "Average"
and the horizontal axis "Teacher"
- Chart Tools Design Tab - Add Chart Element
- Title - Above Chart
- Type the Title GPA
- Add Chart Element - Axis Titles
- Do both the horizontal and vertical axes and type in their titles

Switch the rows with the columns on the column chart


- Select the Chart
- Chart Tools Design Tab - Data Group
- Switch Row/Column button

Put a Chart Legend at the Bottom of the Chart


- Chart Tools Design Tab
- Add Chart Element
- Legend - Bottom

Use the data in the Teacher Name and Students Making Honor Roll columns ONLY
to create a 3-D Pie Chart. Position the new chart to the right of the column chart.
- Insert Tab
- Charts - Pie Chart - 3-D Pie Chart
- Select Data button
- Chart data range = Select the 2 columns you want to appear in the chart
- Click OK, then drag and drop the chart over to the right of the column chart

Apply the Chart Style 3, Colorful Palette 3 to a 3-D Pie Chart


- Select the Pie Chart
- Chart Tools Design Tab
- Chart Styles - Choose Chart Style 3
- Change Colors button, select Colorful Palette 3
- Chart Tools Design Tab
- Chart Styles - Choose Chart Style 3
- Change Colors button, select Colorful Palette 3

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Mrs. Vanden 25 3.3 3.5
Mr. Johnson 22 3 3.3

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