Making Yourself at Home in Microsoft Graph

When Word inserts a chart based on your information, it selects the chart. As long as the chart or any part of it is selected, you are working in Microsoft Graph. (If you click outside the chart, you have to double-click the chart to return to Microsoft Graph.)

Look around to get comfortable in your chart editing environment.

The menus on the menu bar and the buttons on your Standard and Formatting toolbars now reflect Microsoft Graph's commands rather than Word's (refer to Figure 23.2). Using these toolbars and menu commands, you can

  • Format the chart or elements of it.

  • Change the data that the chart graphs.

  • Add or change elements of the chart, such as data points (page 870), legends (page 874), or data ...

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