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Line and area graphs

Line and area graphs - Illustrator Tutorial

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Line and area graphs

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- [Instructor] Let's go ahead and convert this column chart to a line chart or line graph. Simply select it with the selection tool, and then access the graph type dialogue. And all we are going to do here is simply click line from the chart types at the top. And we'll just turn off connect data points just for a moment. So turn that off and hit OK. And you can see that the chart has been redrawn. Now I'm just indicating with my mouse, just moving my mouse around here over the first set of data and doing the same for the last set of data. You can see that they don't meet the edges here of the chart but we can override that when we reintroduce the line. So if we go ahead and go graph type. And then we'll choose connect data points. And also here, we can optionally select edge to edge line. So let's do that and hit OK. And now we have the chart drawn, perhaps as we'd expect it. Tap A on your keyboard to access the direct…

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