How To: Use Excel chart basics

In this Excel basics video, the instructor talks about the basics of charts. There is an enormous difference in how you make charts between Microsoft Excel 2003 and 2007. In both the versions, to make charts the first thing you do is highlight the data cells in your workspace. Now use the toolbar and click on the charts button there. Now Excel automatically generates the charts based on the data and the column and row names. But there are various changes between the charts produced in the different versions of Excel, as shown in this video tutorial. This video shows how to generate charts in the different versions of Excel, and how to use them.