Sizing handles on my chart titles don't work!

I can SEE the sizing handles when I click on the text box, but when I run the
mouse over them, I don't get the double-headed arrow. I can't resize the
chart title, or either of the axis titles. Strangely, I CAN resize the legend
box. I have tried re-making the chart through the Wizard - I've also tried
other charts in other files. I can't resize any of the title boxes!

Help!

Select the chart title and change the font size.

"Nicole" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I can SEE the sizing handles when I click on the text box, but when I run
>the
> mouse over them, I don't get the double-headed arrow. I can't resize the
> chart title, or either of the axis titles. Strangely, I CAN resize the
> legend
> box. I have tried re-making the chart through the Wizard - I've also tried
> other charts in other files. I can't resize any of the title boxes!
>
> Help!

Hi Nicole -

Those chart titles, axis titles, and data labels only pretend to be text
boxes, but those little handles are only decoys (like the Close Door
buttons on elevators). Excel sticks them in the chart and doesn't allow
you to do much more to make them fit than resize the font, as Barb has
suggested.

You could replace these features with text boxes, which give you much
more control over the size of the rectangle. Sometimes it can be a chore
to get them to stay positioned where you want them, however.

The easiest way to add a textbox to a chart (and not to the worksheet,
where it may float above or below the chart, but independently of it),
is to select the chart and type the label. A new textbox appears in the
middle of the chart, ready for formatting. If you want to link the
textbox to a cell, select the chart, press the = key, and select the cell.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com/
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Nicole wrote:

> I can SEE the sizing handles when I click on the text box, but when I run the
> mouse over them, I don't get the double-headed arrow. I can't resize the
> chart title, or either of the axis titles. Strangely, I CAN resize the legend
> box. I have tried re-making the chart through the Wizard - I've also tried
> other charts in other files. I can't resize any of the title boxes!
>
> Help!