Pages - Formatting the Elements in a Chart’s Data Series

Many series formatting options are also available in the format bar. When you select
a series element in a chart, the items in the format bar change to provide appropriate
options for formatting chart series elements. To learn about the format bar, see “The
Format Bar” on page 23.

To make changes to series elements, first select an element in the series you
want to change. Most changes are made using the controls in the Series pane of the
Chart inspector.

To fill selected series elements with specially designed colors or textures:

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Click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Chart button, and then click Chart Colors.

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Choose a fill type (for example, 3D Texture Fills) from the first pop-up menu.

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Choose a fill collection (for example, Marble or Wood) from the second pop-up menu.

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Do one of the following:

To fill all the elements in all the data series, click Apply All. The first fill is applied to

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elements in the first series, the second fill to elements in the second series, and so on.
To fill elements in a single data series, drag the fill to an element (bar, column, and

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so on) in the series.

Note that these fills can’t be used for line and scatter charts. To learn about formatting
series elements in these chart types, see “Customizing Data Point Symbols and Lines in
Line Charts” on page 242 and “Using Scatter Charts” on page 243.

To adjust the opacity, stroke, shadow, or fill of selected series elements:
Select the element you want to change, click the Graphic inspector button, and then

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make the adjustments you want.
When adjusting the opacity and fill, note that dragging the Opacity pager at the
bottom of the Graphic inspector changes the opacity of the chart as a whole. To affect
only a selected series, select it, and then adjust the opacity of the color fill, gradient fill,
or tinted image fill, as needed. For more details, see “Adjusting Opacity” on page 170
and “Filling an Object with a Solid Color” on page 171.
To learn about using one of your own images as a fill, see “Filling an Object with an
Image” on page 173.
To learn about changing the look of the line around an element, see “Changing the
Style of Borders” on page 166.
To learn about changing shadows, see “Adding Shadows” on page 168.

To show and format data point labels for the selected series:
Click Series in the Chart inspector, and then choose Value Labels. Then do any of

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the following:

To position the labels, choose a label location from the Position buttons (for

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example, Middle or Below Right).

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Chapter 10

Creating Charts from Data