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For many projects I find myself ungrouping charts for custom animation or any number of other reasons. But what often happens is there is need to adjust the chart... oops it is now 50+ individual text boxes and autoshapes.

My solution is before I break apart a chart is to create a duplicate it.

Then shrink the duplicate to a miniature size.

I then move the miniture version off the slide so it is not seen during a slide show (or I have also 'hidden' it under another graphic).

Now I can ungroup the chart on the slide and do whatever the special needs are - and still have a backup option should the data need to be adusted.

- Troy @ TLC