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Excel chart with too much blank space – HELP!

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May 27th, 2025

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Ann K. Emery of Depict Data Studio provides data visualization and data storytelling workshops, webinars, keynotes, and consulting.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to fix Excel charts that have too much empty space:

​What’s Inside

  • 0:00 Intro
  • 0:28 Lindsey’s question
  • 0:54 Outside chart borders
  • 1:19 Inside chart borders
  • 1:56 Unsolicited dataviz editing 🙂
  • 15:30 Before and after

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More about Ann K. Emery
Ann K. Emery is a sought-after speaker who is determined to get your data out of spreadsheets and into stakeholders’ hands. Each year, she leads more than 100 workshops, webinars, and keynotes for thousands of people around the globe. Her design consultancy also overhauls graphs, publications, and slideshows with the goal of making technical information easier to understand for non-technical audiences.

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