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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.