Modifying Charts

Modifying Charts

While a newly created chart may be perfect for your needs, you can also modify or embellish it as desired. Using a variety of techniques, you can change virtually any chart element, the data series, or even the chart type/style.

To modify a chart element

To open a formatting dialog box for a given chart object, do any of the following:

Double-click the chart object.
Select the chart object and click the Chart toolbar's Format selected object icon (Figure 13.7).

Figure 13.7. The Chart toolbar.

To display the Chart toolbar, choose View > Toolbars > Chart.
Open the Chart Objects menu on the Chart toolbar and choose the object that you want to modify. Click the Format selected object toolbar icon (see Figure 13.7).
Select a chart object and choose the first command from the Format menu (Figure 13.8).

Figure 13.8. The wording of the first Format command changes to reflect the currently selected object(s).

In the dialog box that appears (Figure 13.9), make the necessary changes and click OK.

Figure 13.9. A Format dialog box specific to the selected object(s) appears.

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Figure 13.7. The Chart toolbar.

Figure 13.8. The wording of the first Format command changes to reflect the currently selected object(s).

Figure 13.9. A Format dialog box specific to the selected object(s) appears.

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Modifying Charts

To modify a chart element

Figure 13.7. The Chart toolbar.

Figure 13.8. The wording of the first Format command changes to reflect the currently selected object(s).

Figure 13.9. A Format dialog box specific to the selected object(s) appears.