From the course: Excel: Charts in Depth
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Add floating text and text boxes
From the course: Excel: Charts in Depth
Add floating text and text boxes
- [Instructor] You can add either free floating text or a text box to a chart at any time simply by selecting the chart first, and taking advantage of some of the options available in the Format tab. Before doing that in this example here, I want to change this blue background. So on that Format tab, off to the left under shape styles, I'll click the option here, white background. Now, let's imagine I want to add some text. Off to the left, under insert shapes, you'll see a box with the letter A in it. That's text box. Click it. Click within the chart and start typing. "2020 Data," for example. Now, that could've been the main title, or it could've been associated there, but just type that. Click outside of it. Layering might come back and format that and make it larger, and so on. It could stand as free-floating text, we can leave it that way. If we want to move it, we click it. We drag the box wherever we…
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