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If you need to add additional data from the spreadsheet to the chart after it's created, you can adjust the source data area. Select the chart. In the worksheet, click a sizing handle for the source data and drag it to include the additional data. The new data needs to be in cells adjacent to the existing chart data.

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Move mouse to one of the corners of the chart or to the midpoints of chart borders until the mouse changes to a double headed white arrow, then you can drag the Chart Area to the size you want.

Move mouse to one of the corners of the chart or to the midpoints of chart borders until the mouse changes to a double headed white arrow, then you can drag the Chart Area to the size you want.

To do this, leave the chart title box blank (or delete it), then click anywhere on the chart, then click the Layout tab under Chart tools, then click Text Box under Insert, then drag open a text box on the chart and type your chart title into it. This text box can be resized, formatted etc. Was this reply helpful?

To resize the text box, use one of the following ways: Click any sizing handle, and then drag until the text box is the size that you want. For precise sizing measurements in Windows, select the text box and on the Format tab, in the Size group, enter the size you want in the Height and Width boxes.

Move mouse to one of the corners of the chart or to the midpoints of chart borders until the mouse changes to a double headed white arrow, then you can drag the Chart Area to the size you want.

The solution for this is to click the Excel chart's X axis, right click and choose Format Axis. Select Axis Options and then click on Text Axis to select it. This changes the way the axis is plotted giving wider bars. You can then adjust the gap width if necessary to make them wider.

In the worksheet, click the cell that contains the title or data label text that you want to change. Edit the existing contents, or type the new text or value, and then press ENTER. The changes you made automatically appear on the chart.

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