From the course: Excel: Introduction to Charts and Graphs

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Moving, copying, and resizing charts

Moving, copying, and resizing charts

- [Instructor] Whether you're viewing one chart on a worksheet or multiple charts, as we are seeing on this worksheet here called YearData, you want to have a sense that you can always move these, and adjust these as needed. First of all, moving a chart, probably best to click just inside a border. You can point right on the border too, hold down the left mouse button, drag this chart, put it here, put it there, make it overlap another chart or not, easy to move. If you click inside the chart in a hurry, you might be moving a portion of the inner part of a chart, not the outer part. And that's not what you want. Ctrl+Z to undo that. Sometimes you want to resize the chart. First of all, I'm going to take the stacked bar chart, the lower chart here and move it. And because the text there is close to the borders, I'm going to click off to the right just within the border, move it down here a bit. So I want to move this chart around. If I want to make this chart larger or smaller, and…

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