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Sometimes going through the Chart Wizards seems to take forever. If you want to put a chart into your workbook very quickly, you can follow these two simple steps:
That's it! Excel inserts a new Chart worksheet before the current worksheet, and bases the chart on the data in your table and the default chart type you have set up. At this point you can perform whatever customization you desire on the chart and work with it as normal.
Interesting variation: If you want to quickly create an embedded chart, press Alt+F1 in step 2 instead of F11.
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2016-05-23 14:52:42
GW Patton
I hate the new graph function. Previous versions allowed much better access to selecting data, changing labels, and annotating curves. Yes, you're right. It's probably just because I can't see how to do it in 2010 as the menu options restrict me too much.
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