1. How To Make Graphs in Microsoft Excel 2007

2. Outline Making Bar Graphs Making Scatter Plots – 1 series Making Scatter Plots – Multiple Series

3. Making Bar Graphs

4. Type in your data

5. Select Insert Graph (Scatter Plot) 1.Select “Insert” tab 2.Select Scatter -You may choose to have points connected by curved or straight lines

6. Insert Graph Once you select your type of graph, you will get a box that will likely be empty but may have a graph depending on what you had selected prior to inserting the graph

7. Select Your Data 1.Select the graph area 2.Click on the design tab under chart tools 3.Click on select data Graph area

8. Select Your Data 1. Click on Add series* * If any data was previously selected, select that series and click remove

9. Type in Series Name

10. Select x-axis data for series 1 Do not select the title, just your data points

11. Select y-axis data for series 1

12. 1. Once series 1 is added, you will return to the previous box, click “Add” to add another series

13. Add Series 2 – Type series name

14. Select x-axis data for series 2 Note how the x-axis is the same for this and all series of this graph

15. Select y-axis data for series 2

16. 1. Once series 2 is added, you will return to the previous box, click “Add” to add another series

17. Add series 3 – Type series name

18. Select x-axis data for series 3

19. Select y-axis data for series 3

20. 1. Once series 3 is added, you will return to the previous box, click “Add” to add another series

21. Add series 4 – Type series name

22. Select x-axis data for series 4

23. Select y-axis data for series 4

24. Once you have added all series click “ok” and the “Select Data Source” box will close.

25. Add a title to your graph Under the “Layout” tab in Chart tools, select “Chart Title” and then “Above Chart”

26. Add a title to your graph A title box, like the one shown here, will appear above your graph

27. Type in your title

28. Label the x-axis Under the “Layout” tab in “Chart tools”, select “Axis Titles”, then “Primary Horizontal Axis Title” and “Title Below Axis”

29. Label the x-axis A title box, like the one shown here, will appear below the x- axis

30. Label the x-axis Type in your x-axis title

31. Label the y-axis Under the “Layout” tab in “Chart tools”, select “Axis Titles”, then “Primary Vertical Axis Title” and “Rotated Title”

32. Label the y-axis A title box, like the one shown here, will appear next to the y- axis

33. Label the y-axis Type in your y-axis title

34. And you are done!!!  To copy your graph into a word document, right click on the graph and select “Copy.” In your word document, right click on the blank page and select “Paste”