ECDL Excel
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Drawing Basic Charts
This deals with drawing bar charts (or coluns charts as Excel likes to call them), pie charts and line charts.
There are a couple of tricky things you need to be able to do, so follow the instructions carefully and work through the guides in order.
First, download the spreadsheet.
Now follow the instructions... (updated for 2026)
Producing Line Charts
To produce line charts, use a different spreadsheet.
Follow the instructions... (not updated so use your common sense)
More Spreadsheets for Charts
You can work with the data in this spreadsheet to draw more charts.
Fishing Competition Spreadsheet
More Complex Charts
There are also guides on how to produce more complex charts such as climate charts and flood hydrographs. These aren't needed for the ECDL exam, but if you're good at using them it can only help.