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Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- Welcome to Pages
- Overview of Pages
- Creating a Document Using the Pages Templates
- Formatting a Document’s Layout and Table of Contents
- Setting Page Orientation and Size
- Setting Page Margins
- Creating Columns
- Varying Column and Page Layouts
- Creating a Document With Left- and Right-Facing Pages
- Adding Headers, Footers, Page Numbers, Footnotes, and Endnotes
- Varying Document Formatting Using Section Breaks
- Adding a Repeated Background Image
- Using a Table of Contents
- Formatting Text and Paragraphs
- Working With Styles
- Working With Graphics andOther Media
- Changing Object Properties
- Creating Tables
- Adding a Table
- Using Table Cells and Borders
- Formatting Tables
- Adding Images or Background Colors
- Formatting Numbers
- Sorting Cells
- Autofilling
- Using Formulas
- A Tour of Using Formulas
- Adding a Quick Formula
- Removing a Formula
- Using the Formula Editor to Add and Edit Formulas
- Using Cell References
- Adding a Formula to Multiple Cells
- Performing Arithmetic Operations
- Using Predefined Functions
- Operators and Functions for Advanced Table Formula Users
- Defining Formulas That Use Operators
- Defining Formulas That Use Functions
- Creating Charts
- Personalizing Documents With Address Book Data
- Printing and Exporting Your Document to Other Formats
- Designing Your Own Document Templates
- Index
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9 Creating Charts
You can turn spreadsheet data into attractive
charts. This chapter outlines the basics of creating
charts in Pages.
Pages provides tools for creating your own visually appealing charts to present
numerical data. You can copy and paste your data from a spreadsheet, or type it
directly into the Chart Data Editor to create and edit your charts right on the page.
About Charts
Charts show the relationship of two types of data with respect to each other. For
example, if you chart business growth over time, you are showing the relationship
between the size of the business and the passage of years. If you chart voting results
among different demographic groups, you are showing the relationship between the
number of people who voted a certain way and their demographic affiliation. When
you enter data for a chart, the two different types of data are represented as data
series and data sets.
Data Series and Data Sets
In a business chart, an example of a data series could be one region’s profits over four
successive years; the data sets could be all of the regions’ profits for only one of those
years. In the illustration below, the data series (each region’s profits) are in rows, and
the data sets (each year’s profits) are in columns. Each individual value (for example,
17 for Region 1, 2004) is a data point.