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Identify different chart elements

Identify different chart elements

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Identify different chart elements

- [Instructor] In the exercise file Chapter One Concepts the first sheet is called Chart Data you see it in the lower left corner, has a number of different charts on it. And notice I'm using the word chart officially and formally in Excel these various images that we're seeing here are referred to as charts not graphs. Outside of Excel the word graph is perhaps more commonly used. If you go into the help system and type the word graph, you will be directed to a description of what a chart is in Excel. As we work with different kinds of charts on this worksheet we see some column charts, some pie charts, some line charts and some others as well. Certain terms will pop up repeatedly and we want to be able to identify what are called chart elements, the pieces of a chart. In the chart below the data over on the left hand side, the chart with the green background, that's a column chart. As I slide the mouse into the upper portion of it, we see the term chart area, the perimeter area of…

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