Graphics and Graphs Workshop

Aim

• To raise awareness of the facilities available in Word and Excel for handling graphical objects and for carrying out graphical analysis.
• To develop the skills needed to work with graphical images and creating custom graphs to enhance impact.

Prerequisites

• This module assumes a good working knowledge of Excel and Word.

Content

• Functional overview – examples of what can be achieved with graphics in Word and Excel and how the packages link together when performing graphical activities
• Working with clipart – inserting basic clipart either from disk or the Microsoft website, moving and sizing methods, setting options for aligning the graphic with existing text, formatting and editing a clipart object
• Working with photosand scanned images – file formats and their uses, inserting, moving, sizing and formatting photographic images, (including setting contrast, brightness and creating a watermark)
• Using WordArt – examples of how this can be used and practice in creating your own unique style, (including customising the colours and shading used)
• Adding hyperlinks – overview of why you might want to do this and how it can be done
• Customising a basic chart – changing the colours and shading, adding logos and other graphics to the background, creating pictograms, customising 3D charts and removing pie slices, saving a custom chart
• More charting methods – inserting and linking Excel charts into Word, creating a combination chart, adding trend lines and error bars, driving the data from the chart and not vice versa