Right-click the chart, select Format Object. On the Size tab, set the chart
to 100% by 100%.
It may be larger than your slide, but nevermind that for now. Double-click
to open it.
Right-click in the chart area and choose Format Chart Area. Go to the Font
tab. Turn off (deselect) autoscaling. Now assign a different font size.
OK your way out of that dialog box and then resize the entire chart area by
pulling on the herringboned edges while the chart is still opened. You can
resize the chart plot area itself within the entire chart area as necessary.
Once it's all sized, click outside the chart. If the fonts aren't right, you
might have to double-click to reopen the chart and go in and select a
different font size yet again. But since you've turned off the autoscale
when you did this the first time, the second time the font change should
"take."
The upshot is, don't resize charts without opening them. Dragging their
handles to resize while on the slide itself is a sure-fire way to screw up
your font size because that "autoscale" is turned on by default. And when
you drag on the slide, rarely does the slide end up being resized
proportionately.
And as I mentioned, you can resize the plot area of your graph inside the
chart area. It's good to make your plot area consistent with your chart
area -- otherwise you end up dragging (on the slide) the edge of the chart
object off the edge of the slide in order to make the chart itself larger on
the slide. And that contributes to screwing up the proportion and stretches
the data and the fonts. (I use the word "consistent" loosely; I just can't
think of the right word there. Basically, you don't want the chart area to
be enormous with this little tiny graph in the corner of it. I see that
happen *all* the time in slides I've received from clients.)
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Julie L said:
The current size of a chart is too small to fit on my page. I would like to
make it bigger but when I do the font/text becomes stretched. Its appearance
is different from other slides in my presentation. I would like the entire
presentation to have one consistent look (i.e. the font size appears constant
throughout the presentation).
