Microsoft Excel 2013 Inside Out

Chapter 20. Formatting charts

• Formatting charts with the Chart Styles gallery

• Selecting chart elements

• Repositioning chart elements with the mouse

• Formatting lines and borders

• Formatting areas

• Formatting text

• Adding arrows, shapes, and text

IN Chapter 19, you saw the basic procedures for setting up a chart in Excel, as well as those for adding titles, axes, gridlines, data labels, and so on. As you’ll recall, when you create and select a chart object, Excel adds a Chart Tools heading to the ribbon, with two tabs—labeled Design and Format—subordinate to that new heading. Virtually all of the procedures described in Chapter 19 are accessible via the Design tab—although, as always in Excel, there are alternative ways to get the job done that don’t involve ...