Liz -

It's not just you. In general I find the new Office 2007 interface less
efficient than in 2003. For charting, though, I find it terribly
inefficient. Everything, as you state, is a separate button or control, so
it takes much more clicking to get anything done. I'm tempted to develop a
Chart Options substitute as an add-in, just to regain some of my lost speed.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"Elizabeth Swoope" wrote in
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I hope I'm missing something in Excel 2007. In Excel 2003, the chart wizard
gives you access to lots of options when you create a graph--graph type,
data
range, the various series (including the X axis labels), the chart title
and
axis titles, gridlines, legends, and others. It doesn't take long to
create
the graph with most of the options you want and then tweak it pretty
quickly.

In Excel 2007, it seems that every option is a separate
button/menu/choice.
Setting the chart title, the x-axis title, and the y-axis title are three
different operations. Ditto for pretty much everything except specifying
the
data range.

I haven't timed this but my gut feeling is that it takes me at least half
again as long to create a graph in Excel 2007 as in Excel 2003, maybe
double
the time. I surely hope I'm missing something simple.

Thanks for any advice!

liz