Part III: Creating Charts and Other Visualizations
Excel provides three ways, described in the following sections, to select a particular chart
element:■ (^) Mouse
■ Keyboard
■ (^) Chart Elements control
Selecting with the mouse
To select a chart element with your mouse, just click the element. The chart element
appears with small circles at the corners.
Some chart elements can be a bit tricky to select. To ensure that you select the chart element that you intended
to select, view the Chart Elements control, located in the Chart Tools ➪ Format ➪ Current Selection group of the
Ribbon (see Figure 21.1). Or, if the Format task pane is displayed, you can identify the selected chart element by the
title of the task pane. Press Ctrl+1 to display the Format task pane.
FIGURE 21.1
The Chart Elements control (in the upper-left corner) displays the name of the selected chart
element. In this example, the “chart title” is selected.