The Data View Window

The Data View Window can be thought of as an inspector for the data and attributes of the current chart in the active document. Just as the Chartsmith Inspector updates to reflect the current selection in the active chart, the Data View Window updates to reflect selected chart in the active document. The title of the window is the name of the document and the number of the chart you are inspecting.

Components of the Data View Window include the Data View, the Chart Attributes Box, the Series Palette, and the Data Fill and Chart Update Buttons. You can edit titles and axis labels in the Chart Attributes box. You can also hide the titles, axis labels, Grid and Legend. New series may be added using the Series Palette, found to the right of the Data View. The Series Palette can also be used to change the type of one or more series columns.

¥ Data View

The Data View is the primary component of the Data View Window. It is used to enter and display data and labels. Each column in the Data View corresponds to a series in the chart. Series columns and rows can be inserted and deleted, copied and pasted, and resized.

Several options are available for resizing of rows and columns. For each option, the mouse is dragged to the correct location, then clicked and dragged to resize.

The width of any single column
can be adjusted by dragging the mouse to the right hand border of the column, in the header of the column. The width of all columns can be adjusted by dragging the mouse to the rightmost border of all columns, below the column header. The width of some subset of columns can be adjusted by first selecting the desired columns, then pressing Alt/Option while dragging the mouse to the rightmost border of any of the selected columns, in the column header.

Resizing the any single row, any subset of rows or all rows functions similarly as the resizing of columns.

¥ Chart Attributes Box


The Chart Attributes box at the top of the window contains controls that allow you to change several attributes of a chart. You can modify the title, subtitle, axis labels, and turn any of these on or off. You can also turn the Grid and the Legend on or off using their respective switches.

¥ The Series Palette

The Series Palette is a scrollview at the right hand side of the Data View Window. It contains icons for all of the series types that can coexist with the designated chart type in the selected chart. As charts of different types are selected, the Series Palette updates to display the appropriate icons. The icon displayed at the top of the Series Palette represents the preferred series type for the selected chart (See Preferences). The preferred series type will always be used when a new column is added as a result of an action that does not specify a series type. For example, hitting the ENTER key on the numeric keypad when any series column is selected adds a series column of the preferred series type.

The Series Palette is used to add new series or change the type of existing series. Double clicking on a series type icon in the Series Palette adds a new empty series column of that type to the Data View and its corresponding series to the chart. The new series column is added to the right of the last selected column, or the right of the last column if no columns are selected in the Data View. Dragging a series type icon to any single series column or to any group of selected series columns changes their series types. Data will be preserved when series types are changed, as will any of the series attributes that can be transferred to the new series types.