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Overview of the Axis Label chart element.
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Exactly as they sound access labels or
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text boxes that title or
label the different axis of your chart.
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In Excel, when you select your chart,
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a new section will show up in
the ribbon called Chart Tools.
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It has the Design and Format tabs.
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In the Design section,
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over on the left, you'll see
a section called Add Chart Elements.
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You can add different
elements of the chart or
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take out different elements
of the chart here.
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Let's add some axis titles and I'm gonna
do it to the primary vertical axis.
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You can move the label around.
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Like so, I'm gonna undo that.
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You can make the font larger in the label.
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Similar to the chart title,
you can rename it, so this is, Members.
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You can also change the color and
background as well, Format axis title.
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I want it to be a solid fill and
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I'll make it yellow cuz I'm feeling
kinda weird right now, why not?
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So sometimes labels
aren't necessary because
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it's obvious what we're looking at.
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This is more likely to
happen on the x axis.
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For example,
here it's pretty clear what these mean.
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Let me make it a little bigger for you.
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We're looking at months, but
if this was a numerical value, for
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example on a scatter plot,
that might not be so clear.
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When I create charts,
I often put them into presentations and
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will add the axis labels in
the presentation software,
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instead of having them embedded
in the chart area in Excel.
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There are many ways to do this.
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You should find out the one that
works best for your workflow.
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