User Guide

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Overview of the
Chart Facility
Titles, Subtitles, and Footnotes
In any chart, you can define two title lines, one subtitle line, and two footnote lines as
part of your original chart definition. To specify titles or footnotes while defining a
chart, clic
k
Titles in the chart definition dialog box. This opens the Titles dialog box.
Figure 40-8
Titles dialog box
Each line can be up to 72 characters long. The number of characters that will actually
fit in the chart depends upon the font and size. Most titles are left-justified by
default
and, if too long, are cropped on the right. Pie chart titles, by default, are
center-justified and, if too long, are cropped at both ends.
Titles, subtitles, and footnotes are rendered as text boxes in the Chart Editor.
You c an a
dd, delete, or revise text boxes within the Chart Editor, as well as change
their font, size, and justification.
Option
s
The Opt
ions dialog box provides options for the chart that you are creating. This
dialog box is available by clicking
Options, Categorical Options,orScale Options on
the chart definition dialog box.
The ava
ilability of each option depends on your previous choices or the type of
chart. Missing-value options are not available for charts using values of individual
cases or for histograms. The case-labels display option is available only for a
scatt
erplot that has a variable selected for case labels. The error bars display options
are available only for categorical charts displaying means, medians, percentages,