From the course: Excel 2016: Tips and Tricks
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Manipulate chart placement with dragging techniques
From the course: Excel 2016: Tips and Tricks
Manipulate chart placement with dragging techniques
- [Voiceover] After creating a chart, you probably would want to move it around a particular worksheet, you might want to reshape it, resize it, you might even want to line up its edges with the cell boundaries in a worksheet and you can also quickly make a duplicate of a chart, maybe because you want a chart showing the same data but of a different type. On this worksheet called Chart Data, I'm gonna be highlighting the data for Domestic, Europe and Asia for all 12 months. One of Excel's best shortcuts, let's create a chart right here on the worksheet, Alt + F1, and there it is. To move a chart, you can drag any edge, it's gonna be easier though if you drag just inside the edge and usually this works best either in the upper-left or upper-right, just click and drag. Don't click in the middle of a chart and drag because you'll be moving perhaps the inner portion of it. I'll press Control + Z to undo that. So just inside the upper-right or left border tends to be the easiest way to…
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