After 15 years with no updates to the Excel charting engine, Microsoft has provided a complete rewrite of the chart rendering engine in Excel 2007.This book will teach users to develop their skills so they can produce great looking charts that communicate clearly. Brilliant Excel Charts and Graphs teaches techniques that enable users to discard the Microsoft defaults and create charts that can communicate effectively. The first section explains how to decide which chart type to use and subsequent chapters walk through each of the chart types, how to create them, how to utilize them and special options available for each chart . Throughout the book there are no-nonsense, step-by-step tutorials and lots of practical examples aimed directly at business users