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Moving the axis labels when a PowerPoint chart/graph has both positive and negative values

July 14, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 5 Comments

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For her PhD dissertation, my friend, Leslee Goldstein, did research teaching the Transcendental Meditation technique to Ugandan women who were part of an NGO (non-governmental organization) program that taught them skills to help them support themselves, such as sewing.  These women had been subjected to a huge amount of stress in their lives and this […]

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Adjust the location of the X (horizontal) chart axis in a PowerPoint chart

June 12, 2013 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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Sometimes, you need to fine-tune charts, because they just don’t look right. One situation I saw recently was the horizontal chart axis not appearing in the right location. I needed to create a chart from this data for a client: Systolic blood pressure -4.5 Diastolic blood pressure -3.2 Here’s what the datasheet looks like. (Did […]

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