How to create a pictograph: Make your next presentation more interesting and easier to understand by incorporating a pictograph using data from Microsoft Excel. Learn how you can enhance your next presentation by creating a pictograph with Microsoft Excel. 1. Launch the Excel application and enter your data into a worksheet or table. Then, select the data (include the field headings and title). 2. Switch to the “Insert” tab and click on the chart you want to use in the “charts group”. Choose a chart with elements that can support a picture (a bar chart, for example). 3. In the chart, select the first element to which you want to add a picture, and then double-click the element. The picture will be inserted in all the elements that are selected, so make sure that the selection border is around only the first element. 4. In the newly opened “Chart Tools”, switch to the “Format” tab, and then click “Format Selection” in the “Current Selection” section. 5. Click on the “Fill” button in the left navigation pane of the Format Data Point dialog box. 6. In the right pane, click “Picture or texture fill”. 7. Under “Insert from”, click on the “Browse” button and browse for a picture file. 8. Choose whether to “Stretch” or “Stack” the image. 9. Repeat steps 3 through 8 for each of the other elements.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 19:02:33 +0000
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