You can make a chart in Word or Excel. If you have lots of data to chart, create your chart in Excel, and then copy from Excel to another Office program. This is also the best way if your data changes regularly and you want your chart to always reflect the latest numbers.

You can add a chart to your Word document in one of two ways: insert a chart by embedding it into your Word document or paste an Excel chart into your Word document that is linked to data in an Excel worksheet.

If you’d like to create a chart in PowerPoint or Word, select Insert > Chart. The default is a Column, but you have different options to choose from. We’ll select Column for now and then select OK .

Insert an Excel chart in a Word document. The simplest way to insert a chart from an Excel spreadsheet into your Word document is to use the copy and paste commands. You can change the chart, update it, and redesign it without ever leaving Word. If you change the data in Excel, you can automatically refresh the chart in Word.

Learn how to create a chart in Excel and add a trendline. Visualize your data with a column, bar, pie, line, or scatter chart (or graph) in Office.

Select Create > Form Design. Select Insert Chart > Line > Line. Click on the Form Design grid in the location where you want to place the chart. Resize the chart for better readability. In the Chart Settings pane, select Queries, and then select the query you want. For example, select RainMeasuresQry.

Word can add captions automatically as you insert tables, images, or other objects. Select the object (table, equation, figure, or another object) that you want to add a caption to. On the References tab, in the Captions group, click Insert Caption.

You can’t create a chart in this version of PowerPoint or Word. But you can create a chart in Excel and copy it to your presentation or document. Open Excel, and select the workbook in which your chart is located. Tap anywhere on the chart to select it, then tap Copy.

Word. Select Insert > Chart. Select Pie and then double-click the pie chart you want. In the spreadsheet that appears, replace the placeholder data with your own information. For more information about how pie chart data should be arranged, see Data for pie charts. When you’ve finished, close the spreadsheet.

By default, Excel determines the minimum and maximum scale values of the vertical (value) axis, also known as the y axis, when you create a chart. However, you can customize the scale to better meet your needs.