Line Chart. Excel offers many types of charts to help you display data in meaningful ways. Building a chart in itself is not very difficult. The important part is deciding the type of chart that is most useful in a given situation. Since this is an advanced excel course, we assume Do you know the basics of charting? Let us have a quick look at the basic chart types.

The line chart is one of the most frequently used chart types. It is typically used to show trends over a period of time. The displayed chart shows the revenues generated by various regions over a period of five years.