Guide to Individual Chart Types

This chapter describes each chart type and explains issues related to that particular chart type. The following topics are covered.

• About Area Charts
• About Bubble Charts
• About Column and Bar Charts
• About Combination Charts
• About Doughnut Charts
• About Line Charts
• About Pie Charts
• About Step Charts
• About Stock Charts
• About XY (Scatter) Charts

Other basic charting topics not documented in this chapter can be found at:

• Getting Started With Charts, which explains how to create charts and do basic chart formatting
• Chart Concepts and Techniques, which gives more advanced information about how the charting software works.