Annotations

Chartsmith features five types of graphics which can be used to annotate your charts. The annotation types are Text, Box, Line, Circle and Balloon. These graphics can be added to your charts by dragging them from the Annotation Panel onto your chart. The Annotate Panel can be accessed using the Annotation shortcut button found at the top left of the Chart Window, or by choosing the Tools->Annotate.. menu item. The Annotation Panel always stays to the immediate left of the current document's Chart Window.

To annotate a chart drag the graphic you want from the Annotation Panel and drop it in your chart. Each annotation type has attributes that may be changed through the Inspector. All annotations accept dragged colors and can be moved and resized by selecting and dragging. To adjust other graphical attributes of an annotation, simply select it in the chart, then bring up the Inspector using the Tools->Inspector Panel menu item, or use the Inspector Panel shortcut button on the Chart Window.

Chartsmith provides another annotation type, called the Trend Line Equation annotation, which is applicable only to those charts that display a Trend Line. These annotations are added to the chart by dragging the graphic from the Trends tab of a series inspector. Once added to the chart, annotation displays the parametric equation that is calculated in order to draw the associated Trend Line. Any changes to the Trend Line's type, or to the series data will cause this equation to be modified, and thus the annotation will update to display the modified equation. The Trend Line Equation annotation is an uneditable Text Graphic annotation, and so carries the same attributes as a Text Graphic annotation.