Chart Titles

Every chart has a Title and Subtitle by default. Titles are an integral part of a chart, and cannot be cut, copied, or deleted (although their textual contents may be). If you wish to remove the titles from a chart, you may hide them using the title switches on the Data View Window. Graphically, titles behave exaclty like text annotations. When a chart is normalized, the Title and Subtitle are sized to fit their contents and centered at the top of the chart.

Title Inspector Panel

Because titles behave just like text annotations, they share the same Inspector.

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Colors - The color wells set the text and background color. Multiple text colors can be specified if colors are dragged directly to selected text.

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Shadow - The switch turns text shadowing on or off. The four buttons set one of four positions for the shadow (in clockwise order -Upper Right, Upper Left, Lower Right, Lower Left). The color well sets the color of the text shadow. The Shadow Offset slider and textfield change the distance between the text and the shadow.

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Rotation - The circular slider and textfield rotate the text about it's center point.

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Size To Fit Contents - This button resizes the text bounding box to fit the textual contents.

The position of chart titles can be set by dragging the titles across the chart, by normalizing (Chart->Normalize), or by using the Format->Position->[Flush Left, Center,Flush Right] menu items.