Excel 简明教程

Simple Charts in Excel 2010

Charts

图表是数值的可视化表示。图表（也称为图形）是电子表格中不可或缺的部分。由早期电子表格产品生成的图表非常粗糙，但经过多年的不断改进。Excel 为您提供了创建各种高度可定制图表的工具。在精心设计的图表中显示数据可以使您的数字更易于理解。由于图表呈现的是一幅图像，因此图表特别适用于汇总一系列数字及其相互关系。

A chart is a visual representation of numeric values. Charts (also known as graphs) have been an integral part of spreadsheets. Charts generated by early spreadsheet products were quite crude, but thy have improved significantly over the years. Excel provides you with the tools to create a wide variety of highly customizable charts. Displaying data in a well-conceived chart can make your numbers more understandable. Because a chart presents a picture, charts are particularly useful for summarizing a series of numbers and their interrelationships.

Types of Charts

MS Excel 中有各种图表类型，如下图所示屏幕截图所示。

There are various chart types available in MS Excel as shown in the below screen-shot.

charts

  1. Column − Column chart shows data changes over a period of time or illustrates comparisons among items.

  2. Bar − A bar chart illustrates comparisons among individual items.

  3. Pie − A pie chart shows the size of items that make up a data series, proportional to the sum of the items. It always shows only one data series and is useful when you want to emphasize a significant element in the data.

  4. Line − A line chart shows trends in data at equal intervals.

  5. Area − An area chart emphasizes the magnitude of change over time.

  6. X Y Scatter − An xy (scatter) chart shows the relationships among the numeric values in several data series, or plots two groups of numbers as one series of xy coordinates.

  7. Stock − This chart type is most often used for stock price data, but can also be used for scientific data (for example, to indicate temperature changes).

  8. Surface − A surface chart is useful when you want to find the optimum combinations between two sets of data. As in a topographic map, colors and patterns indicate areas that are in the same range of values.

  9. Doughnut − Like a pie chart, a doughnut chart shows the relationship of parts to a whole; however, it can contain more than one data series.

  10. Bubble − Data that is arranged in columns on a worksheet, so that x values are listed in the first column and corresponding y values and bubble size values are listed in adjacent columns, can be plotted in a bubble chart.

  11. Radar − A radar chart compares the aggregate values of a number of data series.

Creating Chart

通过以下步骤为数据创建图表。

To create charts for the data by below mentioned steps.

  1. Select the data for which you want to create the chart.

  2. Choose Insert Tab » Select the chart or click on the Chart group to see various chart types.

  3. Select the chart of your choice and click OK to generate the chart.

Inserted chart

Editing Chart

生成图表后，你可以随时对图表进行编辑。

You can edit the chart at any time after you have created it.

  1. You can select the different data for chart input with Right click on chart » Select data. Selecting new data will generate the chart as per the new data, as shown in the below screen-shot.

chart select different data

  1. You can change the X axis of the chart by giving different inputs to X-axis of chart.

  2. You can change the Y axis of chart by giving different inputs to Y-axis of chart.