Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Inside Out

Adding Text Annotations

To create a text annotation anywhere on a chart—for example, to provide source information for your chart data or to call attention to a particular chart feature—create a text box on the chart. Click the Layout tab, click Text Box in the Insert group, and then drag a rectangle on the chart. An insertion point will appear in the upper-left corner of the rectangle. Type or paste the text annotation, and then size and position the rectangle as needed.

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For more information about using text boxes, see "Working with Text Boxes".

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In earlier versions of Excel, you could create a text annotation on a chart by selecting any part of the chart and typing. Whatever you typed would appear in a text box, and you could size and position ...