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Working with axes, labels, gridlines, and other chart elements - Microsoft Excel Tutorial
From the course: Excel 2013 Essential Training
Working with axes, labels, gridlines, and other chart elements
Each part of an Excel chart has a name and although it's not important to memorize those, you want to get used to the idea that a chart is comprised of various elements. In this worksheet called ChartElements in the 07-Charting workbook, if we select the chart--it's depicting the data in columns D through I--depending upon where we click and how we move the mouse around, words pop up on the screen. For example, I just slid the mouse into the area where the columns are and we see the term "Plot Area"; slide up here, we see the term "Chart Area". Point to one of the columns, we see that it's part of a series; point to the data along the left hand side that's the Vertical Axis; down below, we have got a Horizontal Axis and so on. If there are gridlines, if we point to them, we will see that we have got possibly major gridlines and maybe minor gridlines. If the Format tab is active and it will be if the chart is selected--it's part of the Chart Tools ribbon--the upper left corner in the…
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