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16. For a computer presentation, a dark background may be preferable; Figure 12.20 shows
    the PivotChart with a dark background style selected.

FIGURE 12.20

A PivotChart with contrasting color bars and a dark background.

The four styles you most recently selected appear in the top row of the Chart Styles

group, so they are always available for one-click selection.

Excel 2007 has a new feature: Chart templates. However, these templates only work

with standard charts, not PivotCharts, so unfortunately they are no use when

creating PivotCharts.

The bar charts produced in this section are only a small selection of the PivotChart types you can

produce in Excel, based on Access data. The six most popular chart types are shown in the Charts

group of the Insert tab on the Ribbon, shown in Figure 12.21.

FIGURE 12.21

The six most popular Excel chart types.

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