Please help me with graph for MS word 2010 please? Thanks. (Office, install)

[princesasabia]

Im an idiot! Im trying to make a graph for my biology class, but Im lost on how to create the legend.
I have one column that has a list of food substances and the second column has the number for the color they changed to after adding iodine. For example a potato turned green so its starch indicator number is 3. I need a legend that lists numbers 1-5 and the color that coincides with each number. So how do I do that? Thanks in advance.

[Tek_Freek]

You could use a table of one column and five rows with a color in each row, or if the page is wide enough a table of one row with five columns, one for each color.

Or... use the footnote feature. In Word 2003 it's in Insert (menu)/Reference/Footnote

[TurcoLoco]

If there won't be a lot of text in it, I am thinking PowerPoint or Visio would be a much better application for this task.

If you do not have PowerPoint, then you can download free MS Office alternative called Libre Office which has two applications called Impress (PowerPoint alike) and Draw that could easily do the job.
Then you could save it as .pps/.ppt type so anyone using MS Office can open and view it too.

A free and awesome MS Visio alternative is Dia which you can use to make awesome diagrams.
It is hard to open the full installer download site, so it might be better to use the Portable Dia which I typically prefer anyhow.

[hoffdano]

What kind of chart is this? I am having trouble visualizing the final result with the described raw data (two columns). Are you trying to count how many tests showed a "3" vs. a "2"? And represent each number as a color?

Pie? Bar? Scatter?

Word has the same charting capability as Excel and Powerpoint.

If the data looks like the following - what does the OP want?

Food Number
Potato 3
Rice 2
Meat 4
Milk 1