From the course: Excel: Working Together with Power Query and Power Pivot

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Analyze data using PivotCharts

Analyze data using PivotCharts

- Data in a table is pretty cool, but nothing speaks louder than when this data is presented in a chart. It's far more engaging this way. So let's go ahead and do it. Make sure that the Excel file for this video is open and that you're on the pivot worksheet. Excel makes it dead easy to create a chart from an existing pivot table, such as this one. And we do this using something called a pivot chart. Make sure that the pivot table is selected, well that you've clicked anyway in the pivot table and then select pivot table analyze and then pivot chart. Excel knows automatically how to go at what chart it thinks we want to create. Sometimes this magic works perfectly, but on this occasion, I actually want to select an area chart, and then the second option here, which is called a stacked area. And then go ahead and click on okay. As you can see in just a matter of moments, the chart has been created. What I'm going to do…

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