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- [Instructor] In this

movie, I'll show you how



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to modify and format the

text associated with a graph



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and have those modifications

survive larger edits.



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And so, for starters here,



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notice that our text

is really, super huge,



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and so I'm going to take down a point size



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by clicking on a graph

with a Black Arrow tool



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and then I'll go up to the Control panel,



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notice the text is set in

Myriad Pro, which is just fine,



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but I want to take the type size

value here down to 12 points,



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at which point I'll press the Enter key,



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or the Return key on a

Mac, to apply that change.



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And you can see that

Illustrator goes ahead



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and updates every line of point type



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that's associated with this graph.



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All right, now I'll grab

my White Arrow tool,



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which, again, I can get

by pressing the A key,



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and I'll click off the

graph to deselect it.



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And now I want to make my years larger



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by Alt clicking once, that's

a Option click on a Mac,



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and then Alt or Option

clicking a second time



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in order to select that text.



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I'm going to zoom in here.



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It's very important that you don't Alt



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or Option double-click on your text



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because that's going to

switch you to the Type tool,



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as we're seeing over here in the toolbox,



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as well as position your

blinking insertion marker,



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which does bring up an

interesting point, by the way.



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You can go ahead and edit

your text if you like to



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and change it to anything you like,



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but that is going to be

a temporary override.



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So, if I modify this

line of type right here,



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and then I select my graph

with my Black Arrow tool,



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right-click on it and

choose the Data command,



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I can make any modification

here inside this spreadsheet.



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For example, I could change

this number 73 under Facebook,



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not to 74, but just back to 73.



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I could change it back

to the same value it was



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and then click on a check mark



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and as soon as I do,



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I'm going to override

that text modification



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and I'm going to replace

it with my year, 2022.



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And that's because all of the values here



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inside the spreadsheet take precedent.



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Now, that's not to say

you can't modify the text,



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you just need to make sure

that if you really want



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that modification to stick,



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that you don't make any

further modifications



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to the spreadsheet data.



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All right, but that's not

really what I want to do,



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so I'll just go ahead and press Ctrl+0,



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or Command+0 on a Mac, to zoom out



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and I'll press the A key to switch back



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to my White Arrow tool



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and I'll Alt click once and then twice.



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So, again, don't double-click,



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that's an Option click once

and then twice on a Mac,



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and now I'll go up here

to the type size value



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and I'll change it to 18 points, like so,



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in order to make the years larger.



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I also want to make a few

modifications to the colors,



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so I'll Alt click once and then twice



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on the rectangle in front of Facebook,



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and I'll click on its fill swatch,



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and I'll change it to orange, let's say.



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Not because orange is

associated with Facebook,



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but just for the sake of

demonstrational purposes.



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And then I'll Alt click once



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and then twice on the

rectangle in front of Pinterest



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in order to select all

of the dark gray bars,



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and I'll go ahead and change the color



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of these guys to, let's say,



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this shade of purple right here



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and I'll leave Twitter alone,

I'll leave it set to gray.



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Now, the reason I'm doing this is



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because I want you to see that all



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of these formatting modifications



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that I've applied so far,



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including the type size and the colors,



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will survive future edits to the graph.



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So, let's say I don't really want this



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to be a horizontal bar graph,



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I want it to be a vertical column graph.



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In that case, I would press the V key



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to switch back to my Black Arrow tool,



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and I would click on

some portion of the graph



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to select the entire thing,



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and then I'd right-click anywhere inside



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the Document window.



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And this time, instead of choosing Data,



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choose Type, the first

of the graphing commands,



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in order to bring up the

Graph Type dialogue box



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and now notice that you can switch



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to any other style of graph you like.



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And so, for example,

I can convert this guy



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to a Line Graph and then click OK,



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at which point I can see

my data expressed as lines.



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To make a little better sense of it,



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I'll press Ctrl+h, or Command+h on a Mac,



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in order to hide my selection edges



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and now notice how easy it

is to see that Facebook,



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which has the dark squares,



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is much more popular than

the other social media sites.



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Also notice that all of my

text formatting has survived,



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but my color modifications have not.



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Now, because I don't want

to lose those colors,



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I'll press Ctrl+z, or Command+z on a Mac,



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to undo that change



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and I'll right-click again.



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Bear in mind that this

thing is still selected,



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so when I right-click and choose Type,



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I am modifying the selected graph.



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Now, we do not have a preview available



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to this dialogue box,



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that's something to bear in mind,



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and so, if you want to

see how your change looks,



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you have to select a different type,



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in my case column,



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and then you have to click OK



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in order to see it applied.



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At which point, this time,



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because column and bar

graphs are closely related



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to each other, we end up keeping



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not only the text formatting,



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but the colors as well.



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And so we could now very easily see



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that Facebook is much more popular



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than the other sites.



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LinkedIn isn't really more

popular than Instagram right now,



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but once these movies

starting gaining more



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and more popularity, it probably

will be by the year 2026.



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And that is how you reformat

text and numerical values



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inside of any kind of graph

here inside Illustrator.