Hi. This is Melinda Wolverson With IT
Training at the University of Missouri.
Today I'm going to show you how to make
some basic bar charts and pie charts in
Illustrator. This is a particular
interest I think for our scientists mu
you need to create research posters and
a variety of other different documents
that they can get funding for their
research i'm going to start with a basic
bar chart the chart tool in Illustrator
initially looks like this a little chart
and it's down towards the bottom in your
tools panel on the left hand side if you
click and hold on that area on that
button and you can see pie chart radar
chart scatter area line bar stacked
column all kinds of different options
are going to go with pure the most basic
ones column graph tool and the pie graph
tool just to show you how this can work
it's like column graph tool first now I
need to draw out how big i want this
chart to be so i will click and drag and
create a rectangle bar chart about as
big as I needed to be in my document as
soon as I release it opens up this small
dialog and this looks like a little
excel sheet because it is mostly but
there are some options are not available
what i have done is i have created my
data in Excel like most researchers
would do and that i copied all of the
actual information from that Excel
spreadsheet and now i'm just going to
paste that into this little mini excel
spreadsheet so I'll just highlight the
area and then commander ctrl-v to paste
that information in there something i
want you guys to notice these three
columns rows here we have just regular
information that this last column is
actually some of the other rows you can
see that if i highlight the content
there there's no some function there's
no function at all it's just the final
number that it's giving me and I just
wanted you guys to know about that it's
not going to hurt the function of our
creation of the chart at all because the
greater representation of a number you
just need the numbers but i did want to
let you guys know about that so that it
doesn't cause confusion later
then once we put the numbers in up in
the top right hand corner of this little
box and then click the checkmark to
apply and that creates my chart now i
can swap the rows and columns if I'd
like to notice it does not change what
my chart looks like until I check the
apply again now with my selection tool
that's the top-left tool in the tools
panel I can select my whole chart and I
can move it i can change it and I can
resize it and work with it if I would
like to recolor the chart it is kinda
boring i can come up to the very top
with the chart still selected and select
the recolor artwork button it looks like
a little a little color wheel and i can
select bright in this case it's going to
be just a nice quick easy option and
notice there are several other color
options and you can even go into
customer coloring i'll say okay and that
closes that out i can change individual
pieces of this chart using the direct
selection arrow that's the lighter arrow
at the top of the tools town direct
selection arrow I can select just one
piece i selected outside of my artwork
to be selected the whole thing and then
i will click on just one piece of the
artwork in this case the longest bar and
now i can come up to the top for just
that path and change the color for green
just to try this again i'm going to
select the other two just like this one
first and also make that when a darker
shade of red and then this one I will
make black since their total that kind
of tells the story so the first one
which is the lowest is black or in the
black or losing money
the second one we're in the red but it's
not quite as bad as it was the previous
session and then this one were in the
green we're in the clear we're making
money you can actually tell a story with
your colors and your information right
now that i selected the whole thing
again using the regular selection arrow
i'm going to come up to my fonts because
i want you guys to notice it now i have
the wide range of adobe font that I can
use within this program i can choose
anything that adobe has or is on my
computer as you can see it's a
wide-reaching i will use mmm
textbook and i will make that bold there
we go
a basic apart this has been my old
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