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ma501th
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Adding charts from MS Excel

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What would be the best way to add charts from ms excel?

please help

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Adding charts from MS Excel

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Export the chart as CSV file (comma separated value) or any text file format which separates the coulumns and plot your chart with a program like GnuPlot. It offers many output formats like EPS or PDF.

If you only want to plot your data sets without any manipulation, you can also use LaTeX packages like pgf/tikZ (specifically pgfplots) or pstricks (better pstricks-add).

Another approach could be to install a virtual printer driver like Bullzip PDF Printer and print the chart directly to PDF. Note that PDF is only accepted by pdflatex.


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