Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 153)

To format an individual series:
1. Click a riser (area, bar, line, marker, pie slice, etc.) or a legend marker to select a series.
2. On the Graph menu, click Series Options. The Series Options dialog box displays.
3. Make changes in each of the dialog box tabs and click OK. You can also apply changes as you go
by clicking the Apply button. Apply saves your changes to the graph without closing the dialog box.
This enables you to see your changes in the Graph window, continue working, and experiment with
options without having to close and reopen the dialog box.
4. Click OK when you are finished.
The options available in the Series Options dialog box depend on the graph type you have selected.
Each of the dialog box tabs is explained briefly in this section:
• General - Contains general formatting options for a series for each type of graph. For instance, in 3D
column graphs, you can change the riser shape; in bubble graphs and other graph types that may use
markers such as line graphs, you can change the shape of the markers. In pie graphs, you can
manipulate the individual pie slices. You can detach a slice from the pie, delete a slice, or restore the
pie back to its original state. In many graph types, you can also display the selected series as another
graph type. For example, if you create a bar graph, you can change a selected series to display as a
line or an area, contrasting that series to the rest of the series in the graph.
• Data Labels - Specify whether you want to display data labels for the selected series and where you
want to place the labels. Data labels show the actual values from your table.
• Number - Specify how you want to display data label numbers. You can choose from a number of
categories: general, number, currency, date, time, percentage, fraction, scientific, special, and custom.
This tab is available when the Data Labels box is checked in the Data Labels tab.
• Trendlines - Contains formatting and display options for trend lines. This tab is unavailable for 3D
and pie graphs. You can display a trend line according to different types of regression: Linear,
Logarithmic, Polynomial, or Exponential. You also have several other display options. You can display
the equation used to create the trend line, show the coefficient values, or specify that the trend line
display in the same color as the series.
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