Changing chart fonts, Adding labels and axis markings – Apple Pages User Manual

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Chapter 9

Creating Charts

Changing Chart Fonts

You can change the fonts and text colors used for axis labels, data point labels, and

legends.

To change chart fonts:

Select the text you want to change.

To change the font on all chart elements, click the chart to select it. If you select the

text for one data point or axis label, all the text of that kind is also selected. You

change the font for a chart legend separately.

Choose Format > Font > Show Fonts (or click Fonts in the toolbar) to open the Font

panel.

Select a font.

For information about changing text colors, see “Formatting Text Size and

Adding Labels and Axis Markings

Use the Axis pane in the Chart Inspector to format the grid and general look of the

axes for bar charts, line charts, and area charts. You can set the range of values to be

displayed along the value axis, the axis on which you read the data point values. For

column charts (vertical bars), line charts, and area charts, the Y-axis is the value axis.

For horizontal bar charts, the X-axis is the value axis. (Pie charts don’t have a value

axis. To read about formatting pie charts, see “Pie Charts” on page 164.)