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Deleting, copying, or moving a chart – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS User Manual

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Note AppleWorks provides numerous techniques for setting and changing
the chart’s elements. You can experiment with the various techniques for
working with chart elements described in onscreen Help. If you don’t like
the results, click

on the Default button bar, or choose Undo from the Edit

menu. You can also choose Revert from the File menu, or delete the chart and
make a new one.

Deleting, copying, or moving a chart

A chart is an object that you can delete, cut, copy, move, or resize. To start,
select the chart by clicking it. A selected chart has handles.

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Choose Index from the

or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from

the list and click Go To Topic.

To

Select the chart and then

Cut or copy a chart

On the Default button bar, click

to cut or

to copy (or

choose Cut or Copy from the Edit menu). Cutting or copying a
chart breaks its link to the chart’s spreadsheet.

Move a chart to another
location in the same
document

Drag it to a new position (not by a handle). Moving a chart
maintains the link to the chart’s spreadsheet.

Resize a chart

Drag one of its handles

Scale a chart to a specific
percentage

Choose Scale By Percent from the Arrange menu and then enter
percentages to scale the chart horizontally and vertically.

Hide a spreadsheet frame
under a chart

If necessary, resize the spreadsheet frame to make it smaller
than the chart. Then select the chart and drag it over the
spreadsheet.

Bring a hidden spreadsheet
frame back into view

Select the chart and then click

on the Default button bar, or

choose Move To Back from the Arrange menu

In the Help index,

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see:

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charts, modifying