charts and graphs

[Mary]

Help - I am trying to create charts for on my computer.
I have Micorsoft windows XP home edition that has Power
Point, Excell, Word etc. Which program is best for
creating charts and graphs? I need someone to point me
to the right program and then hopefully I will figure out
how to create them. Thanks!

[Gord Dibben]

Mary

Would depend on what you wanted to chart/graph.

Excel is a very good tool for number-crunching and can be used as a basic
database tool.

Access is a database program with some number-crunching capabilities.

Either of these will interact with the other.

Power Point is used mainly for presentation of charts/graphs that have been
built using other Office programs like Excel or Access.

For basic(and some not-so-basic) graphing of numbers and data I would use
Excel with its Pivot Tables and Filtering features which give control of your
numbers and data.

Here are a couple of good sites on charts/graphs to get you started.

http://www.geocities.com/jonpeltier/Excel/Charts/index.html

http://www.tushar-mehta.com/

Gord Dibben XL2002

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:02:51 -0800, "Mary" > wrote:

>Help - I am trying to create charts for on my computer.
>I have Micorsoft windows XP home edition that has Power
>Point, Excell, Word etc. Which program is best for
>creating charts and graphs? I need someone to point me
>to the right program and then hopefully I will figure out
>how to create them. Thanks!

[Gord Dibben]

Also you may want to check the Excel charting NG.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.excel.charting

Gord

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 13:17:28 -0800, Gord Dibben wrote:

>Mary
>
>Would depend on what you wanted to chart/graph.
>
>Excel is a very good tool for number-crunching and can be used as a basic
>database tool.
>
>Access is a database program with some number-crunching capabilities.
>
>Either of these will interact with the other.
>
>Power Point is used mainly for presentation of charts/graphs that have been
>built using other Office programs like Excel or Access.
>
>For basic(and some not-so-basic) graphing of numbers and data I would use
>Excel with its Pivot Tables and Filtering features which give control of your
>numbers and data.
>
>Here are a couple of good sites on charts/graphs to get you started.
>
>http://www.geocities.com/jonpeltier/Excel/Charts/index.html
>
>http://www.tushar-mehta.com/
>
>Gord Dibben XL2002
>
>On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:02:51 -0800, "Mary" > wrote:
>
>>Help - I am trying to create charts for on my computer.
>>I have Micorsoft windows XP home edition that has Power
>>Point, Excell, Word etc. Which program is best for
>>creating charts and graphs? I need someone to point me
>>to the right program and then hopefully I will figure out
>>how to create them. Thanks!

Gord Dibben XL2002