Hello everyone,



I have a problem that is driving me absolutely mental. I am using Word 10.

I am translating a long Word document into another language. The problem is that the documents contains graphs that were (presumably) created in Excel. The client sent me only the Word file, none of the excels files that contain the information displayed in the graphs.

Unfortunately the client is a very busy person who neither understands English very well or seems to know his way around computers, so contacting him for the Excel files is absolutely the last recourse option.

It seems to me like it should be very easy to translate the legends in the graphs, but for some reason I cannot do this. It'll let me change the size, font, etc. but as for changing the text itself, not a chance.

Here's an example:



ALL that I need to do is to translate the legends on the right. I do not need to update the data or anything. Nor does this have to be updatable later because it'll be published in pdf form online.

I'm sure this question is pretty dumb, but I'd really appreacite if someone could give me some advicde how to do this.

Have you established that the graphs are, in fact, linked to an external Excel file? If they are, that's the only place the data can be edited. If they've just been inserted into Word as chart objects, double-clicking on them should open them for editing, in which case you should be able to access the data behind the charts and change the legend. Of course, if they've been inserted as images, that option won't be available (depending on the image format, you may be able to ungroup the elements and edit them individually).

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Yes, I'm sure they're linked to external Excel files. Double-clicking allows me to edit their appearance, but not the actual data. Would "breaking" the links help at all?

Unlinking will leave you with the chart, but you still won't be able to edit the legend text. The only way to edit the data is by accessing the data source.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]