Help, I can't resize chart legends on my axes or titles

[XYZZYX59]

I only have this problem on this machine. Things work fine on all others

Running Office 2003 (SP2) on XP Pro (SP2) on an Inspiron 9300.

When I enter text into chart legends, it gets clipped and when I click on
the frame, Excel won't let me drag the frame wider. What could be causing
this?

If I copy the file to another computer and reopen, it's fine, everything
works, but if I copy it back the problem immediately returns.

I've run the update for Excel, I've updated my video drivers, nothing works.

 

[XYZZYX59]

My apologies for taking up anyone's time. This problem has apparently been
"solved" about a hundred times already.

In case anyone missed it (like I did), see KB870698.

wide-screen monitors with 16:10 aspect ratios cause this problem. Microsoft
knows about it and Dell and everyone else keep selling widescreen monitors so
we can do spreadsheet work. As usual, the customer gets screwed. A shame
really, because it's probably a ten minute coding job to fix it.


If you've gotta use the wide screen, pad the text string with extra spaces
and a period at the end. This will trick Excel into showing the whole
string. The alternative (setting your monitor to 1024 X 768) will disappoint
and aggravate you.

 

[Jon Peltier]

Pad the string with spaces and a nonbreaking space: hold Alt while pressing
0160 on the numeric keypad. Then you don't have to worry about the period
showing on a normal monitor.

Note: this problem has existed long before the high AR monitors. It can also
be related to drivers, font sizes, window zoom, and apparently high tide
cycles.

- Jon
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