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Import Excel data into Illustrator charts

Import Excel data into Illustrator charts

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Import Excel data into Illustrator charts

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- [Voiceover] Illustrator has a half way decent charting function. That they haven't really messed around with much since it was first introduced about a million years ago. But it still works great, you can create all sorts of neat graphs in Illustrator and then edit the elements that are used to indicate the bars or the squiggle lines. What I recommend that you do to learn how to use the graphing feature, if you've never used it is first of all, they have an excellent help page all about using graphs in Illustrator. And you can see all the cool kinds of effects you can do, you can even say that instead of a bar, you can say use this piece of artwork, and have the artwork stretch or stack on top of each other, all sorts of neat stuff. But the first thing you need to do is get the data into Illustrator to make that chart or graph At the top of this hub file, it gives you lots of great information about how to use this little spreadsheet thing that we're going to take a look at and ya…

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