From the course: Excel: Introduction to Charts and Graphs
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Move and resize a chart within a worksheet
From the course: Excel: Introduction to Charts and Graphs
Move and resize a chart within a worksheet
- [Instructor] If you want to print a worksheet that contains a chart, or if you want to make a presentation using a worksheet that has a chart, you might want to consider where the chart appears on a worksheet. On this worksheet called YearData, we've got a column chart to the right. Might want to leave it in its current position. If you want to move a chart, you can point to any of the borders, click and drag, but it's likely to be easier if you simply point into the chart area, and when you do this, it tends to work best to point to the upper left or upper right. So you don't want to be clicking in the middle of the chart or on the chart title and start to drag because you'll be moving that portion of the chart. I'll press control Z to undo that. So I want to move this chart leftward. Let's say I'll point into the chart area, drag it wherever I want to put it. Sometimes when you move a chart, you think, well, maybe the chart should be bigger or smaller. If I point to one of these…
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