Microsoft Office

Part III
Creating Charts and Graphics
Excel provides three ways, described in the following sections, to select a particular chart element:
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Use the mouse
Use the keyboard
Use the Chart Elements control
Selecting with the mouse
To select a chart element with your mouse, just click it. The chart element appears with small circles at the
corners.
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To ensure that you’ve selected the chart element that you intended to select, view the Chart
Element control, located in the Chart Tools ➪ Format ➪ Current Selection group of the
Ribbon (see Figure 20.1).
FIGURE 20.1
The Chart Element control displays the name of the selected chart element. In this example, the Vertical (Value) Axis
is selected.
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