Microsoft® Excel® 2013: Creating and Formatting Charts Using a Touch Screen

Microsoft® Excel® 2013: 

Creating and Formatting Charts Using a Touch Screen

H. Albert Napier, Ph.D. and Ollie N. Rivers

Course Description

Excel provides a variety of tools you can use to create, format and enhance charts—contextual Ribbon tab buttons, menus and galleries, shortcut menus, keyboard shortcuts, task panes, and more. Microsoft® Excel® 2013: Creating and Formatting Charts Using a Touch Screen is a three-lesson basic to intermediate level course that allows you to explore using these tools to create and format common chart types. 


Lesson 1 introduces charting basics using step-by-step hands-on activities; Lessons 2 and 3 build on these basics by exploring additional charting tools and reinforcing previous learnings.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course you will be able to:

• create, preview and print commonly used charts,
• format charts using the Chart Elements and Chart Styles buttons,
• apply chart quick layouts and quick styles,
• modify a chart’s underlying data using multiple methods,
• reposition and resize an embedded chart,
• move an embedded chart to its own chart sheet, and
• select and format individual chart elements.