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Refine chart elements quickly with the powerful and overlooked Quick Layout button

Refine chart elements quickly with the powerful and overlooked Quick Layout button - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Refine chart elements quickly with the powerful and overlooked Quick Layout button

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- [Instructor] When you create charts in Excel, you're confronted with a huge number of choices. On this worksheet, we're seeing two different charts, both based on the data that we're seeing over in columns A through E. Now I'm going to click on the blue chart, and to the right, you'll see a plus. This is true of all charts and chart elements. If you're trying to work with charts and you work only occasionally, or if you're relatively new with this feature, you're confronted with way too many choices. What are all these? What do they mean? One by one, we could cover them, but let's create a chart and show how we can apply some features to it, some visual tools, Without going through a huge list of options, I'd like to see this data in a chart. Those of you who work with charts know it's generally a good idea not to include totals, whether they're on the side or the bottom, along with detailed data. You'll have…

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