Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Let's take a look at Interactive Charts in
Numbers.
I'm using Numbers version 3 and I'm going
to show you Interactive Charts.
Regular charts are just static graphics that
appear on the screen.
You can animate them and have them grow.
For instance, you can select this one here
and say create a chart, like a 2D chart, and
there we go we got a chart.
We have all the data from that in one big
chart.
But sometimes you have data like this where
you want to make it interactive because you
have more than one dimension.
Here we've got, say, the number of sales in
January 2011.
I'd love to be able to go and compare 2011
to 2012 to 2013 to see how sales have grown.
So I'm going to select this whole table here,
create a chart, but create an interactive
chart.
Do an interactive bar chart there.
I'm going to bring this up and what I get
is there is 2011, and 2012, and 2013 in January
and there is the number of sales.
I've got this slider here at the bottom that
I can move.
See there is February, March, April, etc.
So I can move along this bottom here and change
the data in the chart so I can kind of see
it change over time.
But this isn't quite what I wanted.
What I really wanted is to be able to compare
years.
So I'm going to enter data references here.
At the bottom left I can swap things.
Now I'm going to get a chart that shows me
the entire year of 2011 and then I can go
to 2012 and 2013.
You have basically all the same options as
you have with the regular chart.
Being able to have a Title on, change the
Legend, change the Font, things like that.
You have a few extra options like you can
have Slider and Buttons or just Buttons Only.
So you can just use these right here which
makes more sense if you are talking about
three years.
There are four different styles of interactive
chart.
You saw there when I created the chart I had
four choices.
I can change them here.
So I can go to Interactive Bar instead of
column just to view it that way.
I can do a Scatter which doesn't make as much
sense for this and I can do a Bubble as well
which again doesn't make as much sense for
this particular set of data but it is good
to know it is here.
Now the big downside to Interactive Charts
is when you export them to something else,
like say a PDF, they are not going to be interactive
anymore.
So you have to use them inside of Numbers.
But since Numbers is available in IOS and
Mac and for PC users via Numbers iCloud then
it becomes a little more useful.
But in general it is kind of useful for you
to be able to see the change or to be able
to show somebody during a presentation where
you can bring up Numbers and walk them through
a chart.
