Part III: Creating Charts and Other Visualizations
shadow. Using embedded charts enables you to view the chart next to the data that it
uses. Alternatively, you can place several embedded charts together so that they print on a
single page.
When you create a chart, it always starts off as an embedded chart. The exception to this
rule is when you select a range of data and press F11 to create a default chart. Such a chart
is created on a chart sheet.
To make any changes to the actual chart in an embedded chart object, you must click it to
activate the chart. When a chart is activated, Excel displays the two Chart Tools contextual
tabs shown in Figure 20.3: Chart Tools Design and Chart Tools Format.
FIGURE 20.3
Activating a chart displays additional tabs on the Excel Ribbon.
