User guide
To give a dierent emphasis to your data, you can transpose the the data so that data
points are grouped by region rather than by year. In this case, the data points for each
year are represented as a series of columns (data series; in this case each series has
only two data points and the groups of columns for each region are categories. So this
column chart contains two sets of four columns (data points), one category for Region
1 and one data set for Region 2.
The chart legend denotes
the two data series.
Each data set contains two bars,
one from each data series.
These four bars of the
same color represent one
data series.
Each bar represents
one data point.
Data series are represented dierently in dierent kinds of charts:
In  column charts and bar charts, a data series is represented by a series of columns or
bars in the same ll color or texture.
In a  line chart a data series is represented by a single line.
In an  area chart, a data series is represented by an area shape.
In a  pie chart, only a single data set (the rst data point in each series) is represented
on the chart (whichever is listed rst in the Chart Data Editor).
In a  scatter chart, each point on the graph is determined by both an x and a y value.
Two columns of values are plotted as x coordinates and y coordinates on a graph
representing the data points in a single data series.
Adding a New Chart and Entering Your Data
When you rst create a chart, it appears on the slide canvas with placeholder data in
the Chart Data Editor. As you replace the placeholder data, the chart is immediately
updated to reect your own data.
To create a new chart from your data:
1 Place a chart on the slide canvas by doing any of the following:
Click Charts in the toolbar and choose a chart type from the pop-up menu. Â
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