Understanding How Microsoft Excel Builds Charts Business Articles | September 28 Uomo Nike Air Max 97 UL'17 HAL Nere Scontate , 2012 To get the best results from Excel?s Chart Wizard, you?ll want to learn the terminology that Excel uses to refer to the pieces and parts of the charts you build, says bestselling computer book author Stephen L. Nelson.
Excel?s Chart Wizard and documentation use several charting terms: data markers, data-marker descriptions Uomo Nike Air Max 97 CR7 Rosse Scontate , legend, chart text, plot area, and chart area.
Data markers are the graphical elements used to represent individual data point values in a chart. In the case of a line chart, for example, Excel uses uses symbols, or points Uomo Nike Air Max 97 Plus Blu Bianche Scontate , on a line to show data point values. These symbols or points are the data markers.
Other types of charts in Excel use other data markers. A chart that uses columns or bars, for example, has column or bar data markers. A pie chart has pie-slice data markers, and so on.
Data marker descriptions
Excel typically describes and qualifies data markers using the data-marker descriptions such as axis scales and data labels. Different types of charts use different data-marker descriptions. Bar Uomo Nike Air Max 97 Barely Rose Scontate , column, and line charts use axis scales. Pie and doughnut charts use data labels.
Legend
A legend names and identifies the data series you?ve plotted. In the case of a pie chart, for example, the legend typically names the data series and then also shows which colors are used for which pie slices. In charts that show multiple data series Uomo Vapormax x Nike Air Max 97 Nere Rosse Scontate , the legend lists all of the data series and visually shows chart viewers how to identify data series.