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To change the size manually, click the chart, and then drag the sizing handles to the size that you want. To use specific height and width measurements, on the Format tab, in the Size group, enter the size in the Height and Width box. . Then in the Scale Height and Scale Width boxes, enter the numbers that you want.

On the ribbon, click Chart Design and then click Select Data. This selects the data range of the chart and displays the Select Data Source dialog box. To edit a legend series, in the Legend entries (series) box, click the series you want to change. Then, edit the Name and Y values boxes to make any changes.

Bar charts can be extended when we introduce a second categorical variable to divide each of the groups in the original categorical variable. If the bar values depict group frequencies, the second categorical variable can divide each bar's count into subgroups.

Resize a table by adding or removing rows and columns Click anywhere in the table, and the Table Tools option appears. Click Design > Resize Table. Select the entire range of cells you want your table to include, starting with the upper-leftmost cell.When you've selected the range you want for your table, press OK.

If you need to add additional data from the spreadsheet to the chart after it's created, you can adjust the source data area. Select the chart. In the worksheet, click a sizing handle for the source data and drag it to include the additional data. The new data needs to be in cells adjacent to the existing chart data.

Right-click the chart, and then choose Select Data. The Select Data Source dialog box appears on the worksheet that contains the source data for the chart. Leaving the dialog box open, click in the worksheet, and then click and drag to select all the data you want to use for the chart, including the new data series.

Larger bars The solution for this is to click the Excel chart's X axis, right click and choose Format Axis. Select Axis Options and then click on Text Axis to select it. This changes the way the axis is plotted giving wider bars. You can then adjust the gap width if necessary to make them wider.