Charts and the dashboard

Ask for a chart

Weaver draws the chart from the actual columns in your file. Sixteen kinds are available: bars, lines, pie, and more. Move your mouse over a bar to see the number. Select the chart to make it bigger.

Change it with words

"Make it a line chart." "Only show the top five." "Add last year next to it." Weaver redraws.

Keep it

Ask Weaver to put a chart on a dashboard, or press Make a dashboard on the tip under a chart. Once you have one, Dashboards appears in the sidebar.

The dashboard is not a frozen picture. Each time you open it, every chart re-reads the file it came from. Replace last month's export with this month's, keep the same file name, and the dashboard updates.

Check the numbers

A chart is a summary. If a bar looks wrong, ask "show me the rows behind March" and Weaver lists them.

Use it elsewhere

Press Save as picture on a chart to keep it as an image. When Weaver makes a Word or PDF file, the charts it drew go into the file.