Edit Data Chart Properties

For most chart types, you can enable or disable the legend and axes. In addition, you can decide if you want to display a chart title or not.

To enable a legend, choose the option Show Legend (Figure 6, “Legend Options”).

Then, choose where you want to display the legend. Here, you have several options.

To disable the legend completely, choose the option None.

To display a vertical axis for the value, choose the option Vertical Axis (Value) and then switch the toggle button for Show Value Axis to On (Figure 7, “Enable And Reverse Vertical Axis” (1)).

To reverse the axis direction and place the horizontal axis above the chart instead of underneath, switch the toggle button for Reverse Axis Direction to On (Figure 7, “Enable And Reverse Vertical Axis” (2)).

You can also use this option if you have not enabled the vertical axis but the horizontal axis.

If you have enabled the vertical axis, you can make further changes to the axis.

You can set the number format, scale and text format.

To set the number format, expand the drop-down menu under Number Format and choose a format (Figure 8, “Number Format”).

To define your own custom format, choose the option Custom Number Format.

A dialog box opens.

In this dialog box, either choose a format from the list or type in a custom format you want to use (Figure 9, “Custom Number Format”).

A preview is displayed above the input field.

If you have finished, click on the button OK.

To set a scale, expand the drop-down menu under Scale and choose a value (Figure 10, “Scale”).

To set a text format, expand the drop-down menu under Text Format and choose a format (Figure 11, “Text Format”).

To define your own text format, choose the option Custom….

You can define the minimum and maximum value displayed on the axis. In addition, you define how big the steps between each displayed value should be (Figure 12, “Define Values And Step Size”).

Values are already entered automatically.

To change them, type in a new value into the input field.

To go back to the automatic value, click on the button Reset next to the input field.

For some chart types, you have the option to enable a second vertical axis. This axis is then inserted on the right of the chart and also displays the values.

To enable this axis, choose the option Secondary Vertical Axis (Value) (Figure 13, “Enable Secondary Vertical Axis”) and then switch the toggle button for Show Value Axis to On.

To enable the horizontal axis for the categories, switch the toggle button for Horizontal Axis (Category) to On (Figure 14, “Enable Horizontal Axis for Category”).

The axis labels display the text that is added in the mini Excel.

For some chart types, you have the option to enable a second horizontal axis. This horizontal axis will then be used as a second value axis.

To enable the horizontal axis for values, switch the toggle button for Horizontal Value Axis to On (Figure 15, “Enable Horizontal Axis for Value”).

For some chart types such as bar charts, you have the same options for the horizontal value axis as for the vertical value axis.

If you want to display a chart title, switch the toggle button for Show Chart Title to On (Figure 16, “Enable Chart Title”).

The title will be displayed and you can edit the title text as required.

If you enable and disable the chart title again, your changes to the title text will be lost.

To remove the chart title, you can also select it and click on the button Remove (Figure 17, “Button Remove”).

In the last section of the properties menu, you can make general changes.

To apply the preferred category and bar width that you have defined in your user settings to the chart, choose the option Apply Preferred Category and Bar Width (Figure 20, “Preferred Category and Bar Width”).

The values from your user settings are automatically applied to the chart.

To apply the properties and settings of the currently selected chart to other empower^® Charts on your slide or in your presentation, choose the option Apply Properties to Other Charts (Figure 21, “Apply Properties to Other Charts”).

A dialog box opens.

In this dialog box, you can choose which properties you want to transfer to the other data charts (Figure 22, “Select Properties to Transfer to Other Charts”).

You can transfer properties from the following categories:

To display further information regarding the options, hover over the information symbols.

To select one of the properties, tick the checkbox for the respective option.

Under Alignment and Bar and Category Width, only one option can be selected.

Then, click on the button Start Format Painter Mode.

Then, go through your presentation and click on the charts that you want to transfer the properties of the source chart to.

The selected properties from the source chart will be applied to the data charts you click on.

When you have finished, press ESC to exit the format painter mode.

If you only want to transfer the properties and settings from one chart on your current slide to other charts on your current slide, follow the following steps:

If there are multiple customizings for your company, you can switch between the customizings. To do so, choose the option Change Customizing (Figure 25, “Option Change Customizing”).

A dialog box opens.

Expand the drop-down menu and choose the customizing you want to use for this chart (Figure 26, “Choose Customizing”).

Then, click on the button OK.

If there is only one customizing for your company, the option Change Customizing is grayed out.

If you encounter any display issues in the chart, you can use the option Redraw Chart to reload the chart and its content (Figure 27, “Option Redraw Chart”).

Display issues should then be corrected automatically.

To reset colors and borders that you have applied manually on data points to go back to the default customizing colors, choose the option Reset Point Colors and Borders (Figure 28, “Reset Point Formatting”).

For some charts, you can only reset the borders.

In addition to the settings mentioned above, you can enter the manual edit mode.

Manual edit mode should only be entered if you want to make final changes that cannot be made to an empower^® Chart. In manual edit mode, you can edit the chart and its components freely.

If you use manual edit mode and then leave it again, some formatting you have made in manual edit mode may be lost.