Create charts instantly with either of these keystroke shortcuts

Creating charts can be a lengthy process, particularly if you get bogged down in all the many different formatting choices that Excel has available, but you can create charts very fast simply by selecting data and if we look at the data in this worksheet called Chart Data, we could possibly be highlighting this data right here, it's generally a good idea not to include totals along with detail data, but if we simply highlight the data here, there are two quick keystroke shortcuts that we might consider using. If we like to create a chart on a separate sheet, based on the selected data, simply press F11 and we're on a new sheet to the left of the sheet that has the data and here's our chart.

Some people prefer to work with a chart all by itself, you can print it all by itself from here easily and focus just on the chart itself. If you prefer to have a chart right on the same worksheet, for example, like the ones we see to the right here, based on the same data, we've got our data highlighted, simply press Alt + F1 and there's a chart, you're off to the races, so to speak. You don't have to do a whole lot more with this, obviously we'd want to change the title, possibly add some more information, but it really is very, very fast to get started with chart creation simply by using either of those shortcuts, F11 to take selected data and create a chart on a new sheet, or Alt + F1 to create a chart on the same sheet as the data.