Charts - Chart Series Style

Advanced chart formatting options

Chart Series Style

To access this dialog:

  • In the Histogram or Scatter Plot dialog, ensure that the Show Toolbar checkbox (bottom left corner of dialog) is ticked.

  • Select a chart from the chart thumbnails pane, click the Chart Legend icon (i.e. toggle on), double-click a colored box next to a legend item.

The Chart Series Style dialog is used to format the display of the histogram or scatter plot data series.

 

This dialog contains the following tabs:

  • Interior: set the basic visual formatting for each bar or line, including foreground and background color etc.

  • Border: edit the border of the chart items, including color and thickness.

  • Text: for all displayed text, this tab is used to control all font formatting, including alignment options.

  • Shadow: define bar shadow settings.

  • Symbol: the symbol used to denote the bin values can be configured here.

  • Fancy Tool Tip: this area is reserved for future use.

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  • click the '+' to the left of each item in order to display additional parameters

  • If multiple charts have been generated according to the initial data selection, the scope of this operation will be applied to the entire chart- however - if a compound chart has been created, you can edit each of the data series that comprise that chart independently.
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