Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program which allows one to enter numerical values or data into the rows or columns of a spreadsheet, and to use these numerical entries for such things as calculations, graphs, and statistical analysis.
The basic understanding being that excel is a spreadsheet.
What most of us- as casual users of Excel- don't know is that Excel is a Very Powerful tool for not only producing Graphs but also for in depth Analysis of data.
Heres what the Basic Excel Window looks like
A couple of Graphing examples:
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| Bar Graph/Chart |
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| Pie Chart |
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| Creating Applications |
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| More complicated 3D Graph |
Hope this Helps.
