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Four Quick Ways to Update Your Charts
Figure 5-12. A completed dynamic chart linked to a drop-down list H A C K
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Four Quick Ways to Update Your Charts
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Although creating new charts is wonderful, updating them to reflect new circumstances can take a lot of effort. You can reduce the amount of work needed to change the data used by a chart in a number of ways.
Using Drag-and-Drop You can add data to an existing series or create a completely new data series by simply dragging and dropping data onto a chart. Excel will try to decide how to treat the data, which might mean adding to any existing data series when you really wanted a new series. You can, however, get Excel to display a dialog box, which lets you to determine which action you want to use. Try setting up some data such as that shown in Figure 5-13. Using the Chart Wizard, create a clustered column chart for the range $A$1:$D$5 only, producing the result shown in Figure 5-14.
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