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Add charts

Excel:
Insert charts

Sheets:
Add a new chart

Excel 2013

Excel 2010
  1. In a spreadsheet, highlight the range of data that you want to create a chart for.
  2. Click Insertand thenChart.
  3. (Optional) To customize the chart, click Moreand thenEdit chart.

You can also add a Sheets chart to a Slides presentation.

For details about adding charts, see Add and edit a chart or graph.

Add charts to Docs and Slides

Excel:
Copy and paste

Sheets:
Copy and paste

Excel 2013 and 2010

Help people visualize data in a presentation or document by adding charts
from Sheets. If the source data changes, you can update the chart with the
click of a button.

  1. In Sheets, open the spreadsheet and in the chart, click Moreand thenCopy chart.
  2. In Docs or Slides, paste the chart.
  3. Choose an option:
    • To update the chart if the source data changes, keep Link to spreadsheet selected. Then, if source data changes, at the top of the chart, click Update.
    • To keep the chart unlinked (not updated), select Paste unlinked.
  4. Click Paste.

Functions in Sheets and Excel

Most Excel functions are the same in Sheets. For a list of common functions, see the Sheets Cheat Sheet.

Some unique functions in Sheets:

FILTER Returns a filtered version of the source range, returning only rows or columns that meet specified conditions.
SORTN Returns a specified number of items in a data set after a sort.
SPARKLINE Creates a miniature chart in a single cell.
QUERY Runs a Google Visualization API Query Language query across data.
GOOGLEFINANCE Gets current or historical securities information from Google Finance.
GOOGLETRANSLATE Translates text from one language into another.
IMPORTRANGE Imports a range of cells from a specified spreadsheet.

For a list of all functions in Sheets, see the Google Sheets function list.

Add pivot tables

Excel:
Insert a pivot table

Sheets:
Add a new pivot table

Excel 2013 and 2010
  1. Highlight data in your spreadsheet.
  2. Click Insertand thenPivot table. A pivot table opens in a new sheet (tab).
  3. In the Pivot table editor, add rows, columns, values, and filters.

For details, see Create & use pivot table.


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