Excel: Create a Chart / Graph Step 1 - Launch Excel - If Excel is already open on your workstation open a new Excel workbook, There are three ways to do that. 1. Go to the Standard toolbar. Click on the New Workbook button. 2. Go to the File menu. Select New . 3. Use a keyboard combination: on a Macintosh use Command + N and on a Windows computer use Ctrl + N Step 2 - Enter the data to be graphed. For the purpose of this lesson you will use data from a Favorite Fruit Survey. Enter it as you see below: Step 3 - Highlight data to be graphed. Do not include the row with heading titles, only the names of fruit and the numbers. If your worksheet looks like the one above; put your cursor in call A2, click hold the mouse button down and drag to cell B7. Highlighted data should look like the image below: Note: Cell A2 is selected, the select color extends around the cell Step 4 - Select the Chart Wizard . That is done by going to the Insert menu and selecting Chart . You can also click on the Chart Wizard button on the Standard toolbar. Step 5 - From the Chart Wizard box that opens select Chart type. For this activity, I selected pie. After you have selected the Chart type, click and hold your mouse pointer down on the Press and Hold... button to see what your