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Spreadsheet Tutorials: Charts and Graphs

Copying a chart to Microsoft Word

It is common to want to include a chart you create in Excel in some a document you create in some other program; a word processing file, a presentation, or a web page.

Using a chart from Excel in another program is easy if understand the distinction between copying the chart object and creating an image file containing the chart.

Tutorial: Copying A Chart to Word

Questions to think about:

Q: True or False: Charts you create in Excel can only be used in documents created with other Microsoft programs like Word.

Q: True or False: There's no easy way to create an image file containing an Excel chart because Excel doesn't allow you save a chart separate from the workbook that contains it

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