Excel offers a variety of chart types, include many varieties of bar, line, pie, stock charts, and others. A chart is typically created by highlighting the data in a worksheet that the chart is to be based upon. Some of the highlighted cells should be numeric. Then click the Chart Wizard and make the choices appropriate to the type of chart you wish to create. Pie and doughnut charts are good for showing relative proportions of a total.
Line charts are good for showing changing values and trends over time.
Worksheets with charts may be integrated into Word documents, as may chart sheets.