Adding a Chart

There are two ways to add a chart to a report: with the Report Expert and with the Add Chart Expert. If you are creating a report and you know in advance that it will use a chart, you can use the Report Expert to build the chart while performing the initial report design. If you decide to add a chart later in the report creation process, right-click on the report and select Insert | Chart. This brings up the Chart Expert. Both methods show the same dialog box (Figure 10-1) for creating a chart. The Report Expert displays it on the Chart tab.

Figure 10-1. Chart Expert dialog box.

This dialog box has three tabs that are shown by default: Type, Data, and Text. There is also a checkbox on the Type tab titled Automatically Set Chart Options. It is checked by default. If you uncheck this option, then two additional tabs appear on the dialog box: Axes and Options.