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Making a bar graph from non-numeric data values

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    Total Excel beginner here:

    For a survey, I gave respondents the option of circling one of two choices. For example:

    How do you pronounce foyer? FOY-YAY FOY-YUR

    When I did data entry into Excel, I assigned each of the choices either an "A" or a "B" for the sake of convenience. Now, I have a huge data table full of "A's" and "B's," with the leftmost column indicating what number question my respondents were answering. I've attached a screen shot below:

    Screen Shot 2013-03-20 at 10.34.15 PM.png

    My question is: How can I make this a bar graph, where on the X axis I have my question #'s (i.e, C1, C2, C3) and on the Y axis I have frequency of responses? I envision each question # having two bars: one for "A" and one for "B."

    If this is a question that's been answered a ton of times, feel free to refer me to a past thread! And cheers from Montreal!

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    Re: Making a bar graph from non-numeric data values

    Hi McGill_linguistics,

    Welcome to the forums!

    You may have to add numerical values to what an A or B or C is, but here is how you can create a chart to represent your data.
    How-to Make Categories for Vertical and Horizontal Axis in an Excel Chart

    Alternately you may want to consider a likert chart:
    How-to Make an Excel Vertical Likert Line Chart with Categories

    Please let me know if this helps you out.

    Steve=True

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