From: Michael Leuchtenburg Date: 22:01 on 20 Nov 2006 Subject: Excel's chart title sizing 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.
From: Bill Page Date: 00:57 on 21 Nov 2006 Subject: Re: Excel's chart title sizing 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. > > -- > <> :#,_@ v > <^ " Michael Leuchtenburg | http://slashhome.org/ " +73 > ^ " cell: 413.433.0739 " +7< >
From: Michael Leuchtenburg Date: 02:29 on 21 Nov 2006 Subject: Re: Excel's chart title sizing Spake Bill Page: > 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) Oh, I can change the font size just fine. It's the bounding box that I can't change. It cuts off the end of the label, regardless of the size. Of course, it doesn't cut it off when you print. Or copy the chart as an image. Which, thankfully, was exactly what I wanted to do. Of course, I'd worked around it by setting the label to "Foo x x", so it had some extra trailers.. but now I know the workaround. That does mean it's impossible to tell what the label is when editing the document, though. Hey Microsoft, remember that WYSIWIG thing? How about you either stick with it, or go with something sanely describable?
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