The difference is huge.
You can not store or manipulate data using a calculator in any way that compares with the functionality of Excel. If you use Excel and experiment (and read the help files) with the uses it can be put to you will quickly start to appreciate the difference.
A chart is not necessarily a better way. It is just a different way and can be a simple way of demonstrating the overall impact of the data, and the information that has been derived from it. It can be easy to explain in general terms with a chart than with just the data itself. Many people take things in visually, so can understand it better. Others want the specific details. It depends on the context. Sometimes we need to see the detail and other times we just need an overview. Data works with charts. Charts can only be generated if the data is there.
A chart is a visual way of presenting data. Often a chart is generated from data in a spreadsheet, so the two normally come together, not separately. A spreadsheet is mainly used for calculations. If you have a set of completed figures on which no calculations are needed and you want to show them in a chart, then you could draw a chart from them without using any spreadsheet. You could draw it by hand or using some other computer application.
Even if you did have a set of figures that no calculations were needed on, you could still type those into a spreadsheet and create a chart from them, as it might be simpler and the chart would be more accurate than doing it by hand or with another application.
A chart is a graphical representation of your figures in your spreadsheet, like in a pie chart, a line chart or a column chart for example. The spreadsheet itself is just consists of the figures and headings, all arranged in an orderly fashion, and from which you can make a chart. You can embed a chart into your spreadsheet or have it on a worksheet of its own. So charts are part of the spreadsheet program.
Because Charts can store information more easily
Charts in Powerpoint need numbers to actually chart. These values are shown on a spreadsheet which automatically opens when a chart is being created.
pie chart
a chart
spreadsheet
Actually, within Excel you must have the spreadsheet prior to creating a chart. But, the advantage to creating the chart is that it gives the viewer more of a visual story of what is occurring, instead of just a list of data or numbers.
You use charts.
The original spreadsheet, or you can get the chart to have a data table attached to it when you are creating it.
bar chart and pie chart
In a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, they are usually referred to as charts. A chart is a graphical representation of data, in which the data is represented by symbols, such as:bars in a bar chartlines in a line chartslices in a pie chart
A spreadsheet does not show a pictorial form, but you can use the data in a spreadsheet to generate a chart, which will show a picture representing the data.
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