Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Excel 2003

Chapter 22. Formatting Charts

In this chapter

• An Overview of Formatting Charts

• Formatting Lines: Axes, Tick Marks, High/Low Lines, and Error Bars

• Formatting Text: Data Labels, Titles, Legends, and Text Boxes

• Enhancing Charts with Shapes

• Formatting Data Series

• Changing the Border, Color, or Fill of a Chart Item

• Formatting 3D Charts

An Overview of Formatting Charts

Formatting charts is as important as the data behind the chart. What you display says a lot about your skills and your ability to translate information to others. All too often, people clutter charts and the message gets lost in all the data. Because Excel offers such a wide variety of options, people want to use them all in graphic presentations. Remember, the less you try to cram onto the chart, ...