Power Point Issue

Question

Hello .. hoping someone can help.   Working on a monthly power point, that I basically just update the data every month.   For some reason, this month, my Text Box seems to be "part of" my Chart Area .. can't edit it, move it or even delete it without moving/deleting the entire chart.   Must be linked or grouped somehow, but can't seem to be able to delink or ungroup.

Any ideas ??

Answer 1

Try 

Place cursor over the text in the textbox and click to put cursor in the text

Then ESC

Then delete

Answer 2

Hopefully this link works.   Thanks for all your help.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Anv5d\_F1K5VqgrY4utY8f9AZpCpXpQ?e=nj52DQ

Answer 3

Larry,

Sure:

Microsoft's OneDrive is one possibility

Free accounts are available, and should be all you need.

Answer 4

Thanks Steve .. unfortunately the problem is that the text box seems to be part of the Chart Area, any time I click on the text box, it selects the Chart Area also .. and I can not edit/move/modify the text at all … or delete it.   Can you direct me to a file sharing site that I could use to upload it.   I do not really use one.

Answer 5

Normally if you insert a text box while a chart is selected, the text box becomes part of the chart and moves with it, but you can usually select the text box to edit/move/modify it *within* the confines of the chart.

If that's the case, you can select the text box, copy it, then with the chart UNselected, paste onto the slide itself, then delete the text from within the chart.  Then you can move the text box anywhere you like on the entire slide.

If that doesn't seem to fit your situation, please upload a sample slide to an online file sharing service and paste a link to it here so we can have a look.  If need be, replace any real/proprietary/sensitive info with "dummy" data first.