User Guide

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Chapter 40
To apply a template to a chart already in the Chart Editor, from the menus choose:
File
Apply Chart Template...
This opens a s
tandard file selection dialog box. Select a file to use as a template. If
you are creating a new chart, the filename you select is displayed in the Template
group when you return to the chart definition dialog box.
A template i
s used to borrow the format from one chart and apply it to the new
chart you are generating. In general, any formatting information from the old chart
that can apply to the new chart will automatically apply. For example, if the old chart
is a cluster
ed bar chart with bar colors modified to yellow and green and the new
chart is a multiple line chart, the lines will be yellow and green. If the old chart is
a simple bar chart with drop shadows and the new chart is a simple line chart, the
lines will
not have drop shadows because drop shadows don’t apply to line charts.
If there are titles in the template chart but not in the new chart, you will get the
titles from the template chart. If there are titles defined in the new chart, they will
override
the titles in the template chart.
To Create a Chart Template
E Createachart.
E Edit the chart to contain the attributes that you want to have in a template.
E From the Chart Editor menus choose:
File
Save Char
t Template...
E
In the Sa
ve Chart Template dialog box, specify which characteristics of the chart you
want to save in the template. The online Help describes the settings in detail.
E Click Continue.
E Enter a filename and location for the new template. The template’s extension is .sgt.