You mean long category labels on the X axis? You could edit the cells to put
a hard break in the label, to shorten it somewhat.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
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"Kent McPherson" wrote in message
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I've done that but you can't eliminate the white space if still have long
labels. Looks like maybe I'm stuck with creating shorting descriptors.

"Jon Peltier" wrote in message
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Click on the plot area (the rectangle defined by the axes) and stretch it
into the white space.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
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"Kent McPherson" wrote in message
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I have bar charts where I have turned off the legend because my selection
range includes series descriptors. For example:

Descriptor 1 100
Descriptor 2 200
Descriptor 3 300


Because my specific example has fairly long strings for the descriptors,
there is significant white space where the legend would be even though I
have the legend turned off. If I shorten the descriptors, the white
space goes away. I want long descriptors to make the values clear but
not all the white space. Anyone know if I can eliminate this somehow
while keeping the long descriptors?