Operation Manual

Tables, Charts, and Calendars 105
Data sources
The first step in creating charts is to consider what data you'll want to
base your chart on. You should spend some time in advance preparing
data for chart presentation.
Several data sources can be used to base your chart on. Here's an
overview of typical data sources that will let you create charts easily.
Data source Description
Chart Data tab
Using PagePlus's Chart Data tab, you can either:
• Create your own off-the-page chart data
without the need for a PagePlus table. See
Creating charts from scratch on p. 106.
-or -
• Create chart variations (of differing type
and data ranges) from a single PagePlus
table.
PagePlus table
If you have a PagePlus publication which already has
a table present, you can base your chart on that table
data, with the option of presenting table and chart
data in unison. See
Creating charts from PagePlus
tables on p. 107.
External
spreadsheet
You can paste cell data from Microsoft Excel directly
onto your page or pasteboard. Once in PagePlus,
you can create a chart as you would with a PagePlus
table (see above).
If you want to use table data from Microsoft Word, copy and paste
the table into Excel first.