Create a Chart from Worksheet Data

Topic at a glance

You can do more with Microsoft Excel data than simply arrange it in rows and columns. You can display it graphically in a chart. Show the values as lines, bars, columns, pie slices, and other data markers, and even combine different markers in the same chart.

When the chart itself is all you need, create a separate chart sheet. When it’s best to display the chart along with the associated data, you can either create a chart directly on the worksheet or add a table to a chart sheet containing the pertinent data. In any case, the values in the chart are updated whenever the source worksheet data changes.