From the course: Excel: Introduction to Charts and Graphs
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Working with line charts
From the course: Excel: Introduction to Charts and Graphs
Working with line charts
- [Instructor] One of the most commonly used chart types in Excel is a line chart, and it's generally agreed that a line chart is ideal for showing information over a time period to expose a trend or sometimes the lack of a trend. In this worksheet called line chart in our chapter four file, the purple chart on the left is based on the data we see over in columns A and B. It's from mid 2021 until the end of 2023. Month-by-month, we're tracking sales is quite erratic. It jumps up and down a lot. One option, not so well known is that if you double click the line, the dialogue box that appears to the right includes a number of options, including, if you click that paint bucket, you see all kinds of options about the line. Now, we don't want to get into heavy detail about formatting, but there is an option here, you might have overlooked called smooth line, and some people like this, I'm not sure if it's a great service for this particular chart, but as we click this, watch the line and…
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