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It is not unusual to present data in both tabular and graphic forms in a report. Word makes it easy to do this. Once you have developed your table, you can convert the information directly into a graph. You do this in the following manner:
As you were following these steps, you may have noticed that there is a Chart tool in the Illustrations group on the Insert tab of the ribbon. You may have then wondered why you wouldn't use this tool to create a chart.
The reason is simple: If you select the Chart tool, you end up with a generic chart created using Excel and inserted directly in your document. (You also end up with this type of chart if you choose Microsoft Excel Chart in step 4.) Word does not base the chart upon the selected table data (you selected it in step 1), but instead inserts the chart into the first cell of the selected table, thereby deleting anything that was in that cell.
For simple charting tasks it is better to avoid using the Chart tool and insert a Microsoft Graph Chart object, as outlined in these steps.
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2020-08-26 03:39:41
karthik
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2020-04-18 18:49:00
Michael Kelly
Hi Allen,
I liked finding out about this tool--after all these years!
And it did make a graph, but it was a huge 3d graph. All the formatting controls were unresponsive, and dragging the corner didn't help.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, as always, for your Word tips.
Michael
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