This workshop is for users who are familiar with entering data into Excel and have a basic knowledge of mathematical formulas and functions or have successfully completed part 1 of our Excel workshop programme.

A chart is the essential tool used in Excel to visualise and communicate data graphically. Charts allow your audience to quickly and accurately assess the meaning behind the data, and they make showing comparisons and trends much easier.

In this workshop users will be able to quickly create charts from data and format the chart to produce a professional output for use in reports, dissertations and academic publications.

• Creating Column, Bar and Pie Charts
• Manipulating chart properties to achieve desired outcomes
• Combination or combo charts
• 3D Map charts
• Diverging bar charts
• Gantt charts
• Timelines

The IT Learning Centre team provides a programme of IT related workshops to help you develop essential computing skills which will be invaluable during your time at the University and in the workplace.  Each semester we publish a new programme of workshops which are free of charge for students and staff, they range from introductions for users with very little experience to more advanced topics.  If you are not sure which IT workshops you would like to attend, why not check out the workshops overview