User Guide

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Creating and Ed
iting Charts
The bars in the chart are now dark blue.
Figure 7-7
Edited bar ch
art showing blue bars
Formatting Numbers in Tick Labels
Notice that the numbers on the y axis are scaled in thousands. The numbers also
include two unnecessary decimal places. To make the chart more attractive and easier
to interpret, we will change the number format in the tick labels and then edit the
axis title appropriately.
E Select the y axis tick labels by clicking any one of them.
E To reopen the Properties window (if you closed it previously), from the menus choose:
Edit
Properties
Note: From here on, we assume that the Properties window is open. If you have
closed the Properties window, follow the previous step to reopen it. You can also use
thekeyboardshortcutCtrl+Ttoreopenthewindow.