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Annoying Chart Pop-Up window I can't get rid of
EdHarris Hello Ed,
I had this error pop up in my excel 365 today. Do you know how to get rid of this?
DRPaquette Try clicking the ALT key or the CTRL key. Both of these work for me.
I have been using Excel every day for almost 30 years now. I have never seen this popup until the last month or two, and it is unbelievably annoying. I see no purpose to it and it is covering up my data. I wish that Microsoft would get their head out of my butt and let me do my work. My biggest impediment to porductivity is Microsoft and their constant changes to the office suit and Windows. They keep making changes that they think will help people do their work, but they havent a clue as to how real people work. I wish that they would stop trying to add things to their software and focus on fixing the 10,000 bugs that are already there.
I figured it out!
I hope this works for you -
Click off of the chart, then onto the chart, hover, then hope for these icons to show up.
When they do, click the '+' icon, and it goes away. Phew.
I've never posted on this forum before, but it brought me here to address an irritation and it's the only article I can find about it. I've found the solution! Wanted to share it with anyone who stumbled upon this in the same way I did.
Jim's solution is 99% of the way there and helped me immensely. For me at least the only difference was that it's the FILTER icon (the one like a funnel) and not the "+" icon. Click the funnel (which you did accidentally once already, which is why you're reading this) and the problem goes away!
