How to Format an Excel Chart

To formart the chart you created in the last part, do this:

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  Click on your chart with your right mouse button


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  A pop up menu appears


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  Move your mouse up to "Format Chart Area"

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  Click on Format Chart Area with your left mouse button


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  A dialogue box appears, and looks like the one below:

Select the Font tab strip, and change your settings to match those above: Arial, Regular, Size 8. Click OK when you're done. Your Chart will look something like the one below:

We now have four programmes showing, and different ones! Not quite there yet, then. We need to move the chart up a bit, and then resize it.To move your chart up, do the following:

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  Move your mouse into the Chart Area, but on a white bit


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  Hold down your left mouse button


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  Keep the left mouse button held down, and drag your mouse upwards


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  Your chart should move up


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  Let go of the left mouse button when your chart is near the top


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  In the image below, the top left of the chart has been moved to the cell B2