Question: What is the Excel Chart Wizard?
Answer:
The Chart Wizard is No More
The chart wizard was discontinued beginning with Excel 2007.
It was replaced with a section of the ribbon under the Insert tab.
Pre Excel 2007 Chart Wizard
The Excel Chart Wizard makes the process of creating charts or graphs a very simple procedure.
There are four steps to the Excel Chart Wizard. These steps contain a number of options that allow you to pick a chart type, choose your data, and add titles and formatting to produce a finished chart.
A chart is based on a selection or range of related data. A chart often makes it easier to understand the data in a worksheet because users can easily pick out patterns and trends illustrated in the chart that are otherwise difficult to see.
The Four Steps of the Chart Wizard
- Chart Type
Choose the type of chart to create such as a pie chart, bar chart, or line chart.
- Chart Source Data
Selecting or verifying the data that will be used to create the chart.
- Chart Options
Adding titles to the chart and choosing various chart options such as adding labels and a legend.
- Chart Locationn
Deciding whether to put the chart on the same page as the data or on a separate sheet.
