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One Touch Excel Charts

By Ted French, About.com

Press F11 to create a chart using the default chart type

Press F11 to create a chart using the default chart type

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One Touch Excel Charts

If you ever need a chart in a hurry or you just want to check on certain trends in your data, you can create a chart in Excel with a single keystroke. There are only two steps to doing this:

  1. Select the data you want to use in the chart.
  2. Press the F11 key on the keyboard

The chart that is produced uses all the current defaults. If you haven’t changed any of the default settings, the chart you will get by pressing F11 is a Column Cluster Chart.

If this isn’t the type of chart you want to produce when pressing F11 you need to change the default chart type.

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