The chart feature of Microsoft Excel is, no doubt, a very clever piece of software, which can produce very nifty graphics. But, in my hands at least, it does require a fair amount of help.
The snap above is what I get by asking for a line chart from part of a column of an Excel worksheet. On which I have gone so far as to add a title. My chart skills go that far.
Now the data in question is dated and I dare say that, with a bit of time and effort, I could produce a properly dated and labelled line graph, something fit for use in, say, the FT. At a guess, it would take me around an hour, fiddling about with the various intricacies of the chart feature.
Maybe a grandchild could do the same thing in a few minutes? Maybe he would dive into Copilot and get him to do most of the work.
Maybe I could do all that, if I did enough charts to make it worth my while to learn the tricks of the trade.
PS: the data in question is reasonably messy, and I would think Copilot is some way off being able to supply the statistical narrative needed to support the graphic. Not least because quite a lot of the necessary information is not to be found in the worksheet, not even in the text fields supporting the numeric data.
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