User Guide

Many options are available using the Chart inspector. For example, for bar, column, and
area charts, you can make formatting selections to change the look and style of data
series shapes and symbols in the Series pane of the Chart inspector after selecting an
element in the series you want to change.
To ll selected series elements with specially designed colors or textures using the
Chart inspector:
1 Select a column, a bar, or another series element you want to format.
2 Click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Chart inspector button, and then click Chart
Colors.
3 Choose a ll type (for example, 3D Texture Fills) from the rst pop-up menu.
4 Choose a ll collection (for example, Marble or Wood) from the second pop-up menu.
5 Do one of the following:
To ll all the elements in all the data series, click Apply All. The rst ll is applied to Â
elements in the rst series, the second ll to elements in the second series, and so
on.
To ll elements in a single data series, drag the ll to an element (bar, column, and Â
so on) in the series.
Note that these lls 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 156 and “Using Scatter Charts” on page 15 7.
To adjust the opacity, stroke, shadow, or ll of selected series elements:
Select the element you want to change, click the Graphic inspector button, and then m
make the adjustments you want.
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