Excel: Adding Multiple Lines of Attached Text to Chart

Last reviewed: November 29, 1994
Article ID: Q48486

SUMMARY

Multiple lines of attached text can be added to the chart title, value axis, category axis, and series or data points in Microsoft Excel charts.

To add multiple lines of attached text to charts created in Excel version 2.20 or later, do the following:

  1. From the Chart menu, choose Attach Text.

  2. Click the desired position of the attached text (that is, chart title, value axis, category axis, or series or data point).

  3. Type in the desired text, pressing COMMAND+RETURN at the end of each line.

  4. Press ENTER, or click the check mark to enter the attached text.

To add multiple lines of attached text to charts created in Excel versions 1.03, 1.04, and 1.50, do the following:

  1. From the Chart menu, choose Attach Text.

  2. Click the desired position of the attached text (that is, chart title, value axis, category axis, or series or data point).

  3. Type in the desired text, pressing RETURN at the end of each line.

  4. Press ENTER, or click the check mark to enter the attached text.

REFERENCES

For additional information on the Attach Text command, see page 454 in the "Microsoft Excel User's Guide 1," version 4.0, page 474 in the "Microsoft Excel User's Guide" version 3.0, or page 88 in the "Microsoft Excel Reference" version 2.2, or query on the following words:

   Excel and attach and text and chart


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Last reviewed: November 29, 1994
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