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Creating charts from data
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8. To change the color scheme, legend appearance, or font style, click Style in the Chart
inspector. See
Changing the look of a chart.
9. Click Print or Save as Layout (quick charts) or Done (Layout mode charts) to finish the
chart. See
Creating quick charts or Creating and editing charts in Layout mode.
Related topics
About chart types
Scatter and bubble charts
To get started creating a chart, see Creating quick charts or Creating and editing charts in Layout
mode.
To choose a chart type, define the axes, and include a legend:
1. Find the records you want to chart. See Making a find request.
If you are charting delimited data stored in a single record or data from related records, you
must specify data source settings. See
Specifying the data source for a chart.
2. In the Chart Setup dialog box, choose a chart type. See About chart types.
3. Enter the following axis settings:
Specify a custom decimal or
thousands separator character
For Decimal, enter a character or select Use thousands
separator and enter a character.
Include a decimal or currency
notation character
For Notation, choose a position for the notation and enter a
custom character.
For Do this
X-Axis Title
and
Y-Axis Title
Type a title or click , choose Specify Field Name or Specify
Calculation, complete the dialog box, and click OK.
X-Axis Data
and
Y-Axis Data
Click to specify a data series for each axis. For example, you
might plot product development costs on the x-axis and product
revenue on the y-axis.
Note The x-axis must be number field type. For example, the profit
gained.
Radius Data
(Bubble charts only)
Click to specify a data series for the third data series you want to
include in this comparison. For example, radius data might show the
profit margin between cost and revenue for each product. This chart
would reveal which product is most profitable rather than which
product generates the most revenue.
Label Data
Click to specify a label for each data point.
To Do this