Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
At the time of writing,
MicrosoftOffice2007
for Windows has just been
released, but is only beginning to appear on computers so we will describe
Office2003
. The current version of Microsoft Office for Mac OSX is
Office
2004
. The current version of OpenOffice is 2.4.
Creating graphics
Tables, charts
Perhapstheeasiestwaytochartnumericaldataiswithaspreadsheetprogramlike
MicrosoftExcel
or
OpenOfficeCalc
. Loading the data into a spreadsheet was
covered previously; here we will demonstrate how to graph some existing data.
Example
Creating a Chart in Excel for Mac
The data are entered as one or more columns in the spreadsheet. To plot the
data, select one or more columns, then select the Chart Wizard from the
toolbar.
From this select the type of chart; choices are histogram, line chart, dot
chart and pie charts, each in two or three dimensions.
