Each chart consists of more elements that determine its appearance. This is, first of all, the way data are shown within a group (Data Series) or a single series (Data Point). Depending on the type of data, different charts are being used: Column, Bar, Line, Surface, Pie … Accordingly, the elements of such charts are: title, legend, axes, background … By adding or removing elements we ‘re getting the more effective report.
Often we fill out tables with data that are meaningful strings. This can be for example the days of the week, the names of months, and so on. Therefore, it would be convenient to have automation using just enough to enter only the first member of the string, for example, “MONDAY”, and when applying a fill-in technique to Excel, automatically fill in the other several selected fields with the names of the remaining days of the week. This automatics are the Custom Lists and will be referred to in the following text.
When entering data into a table among them, there is often a meaningful connection, that is, they belong to a certain set of data. This is most commonly encountered when filling out the regular numbers in the table. Excel has fine mechanisms for automatically filling data sets that, apart from numbers, can also be used to fill dates, as well as to copy values in a table. The following text will be about the series of data series.
Charts can be based on one or more data sets. More series are used when we want to show business results by quarter or over a few years. When making such charts, it is important to pay attention to the subtype as it determines their appearance. That is, we should choose whether to make a Stacked or Clustered chart. Also, during work with such charts, users may need to add, edit or delete series of data…