Re: Excel's chart title sizing

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From: Bill Page
Subject: Re: Excel's chart title sizing
Date: 00:57 on 21 Nov 2006
right click -> properties (or format, i forget) -> font -> slap
someone silly for including resize handles that do nothing

(i think that works, but i'm not sure, not having made a graph for a
long time now..thank god)

On 11/21/06, Michael Leuchtenburg <michael@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> A very specific hate, I know. But there it is. I hate Excel's chart
> axis title sizing.
>
> Excel, very helpfully, automatically sizes the axis titles. However, it
> sizes the vertical ones WRONG. And then it doesn't let you resize them.
> Because, after all, it couldn't possibly have done it entirely
> incorrectly, cutting off most of the title. Nope. Totally impossible.
>
> It then proceeds to display resize handles on them. They're useless, of
> course. You can move the title around, but you can't resize it. And so
> the handles just sit there. Mocking me.
>
> At this rate, it would have been 10x faster to save the chart as an
> image and edit it in an image editor than it's been to make it work
> properly.
>
> HATE.
>
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