Apple Pages '09 - Manual (Page 229)

Chapter 10 Creating Charts from Data 229
Placing and Formatting a Chart’s Title and Legend
The chart title is where you can describe the subject of the chart. The chart legend
shows which colors used in the chart represent which data series.
You can show or hide a chart’s title or legend, change the appearance of its text,
and drag it wherever you want it to appear on the same page. To change any chart
attribute, first select the chart.
To place and format a selected chart’s title and legend, do any of the following:
To show the title or legend, choose View > Show Inspector, and then click the Chart
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button. Select Show Title or Show Legend.
To give the chart a new title, select the text in the title box and type a new one.
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To edit the labels in the legend, click Edit Data to open the Chart Data Editor, and then m
edit the series labels in the Chart Data Editor, or select the legend and edit the text
directly in the legend.
To format the text in the legend or title, see “
m Setting Shadows, Spacing, and Series
Names on Bar and Column Charts” on page 241.
To add descriptive text elements to a chart, create a text box. See “Adding a Floating
Text Box” on page 104. When you’ve finished formatting your chart, you can group the
text box with the chart, so that the text box and chart always move together should
you decide to move the chart. See “Grouping and Ungrouping Floating Objects” on
page 163.
Formatting the Text of Chart Titles, Labels, and Legends
You can change the size and appearance of chart and axis titles, axis labels, data point
labels, and legends.
To format the text of labels and legends:
1 Depending on which text you want to format, select the appropriate item:
To format all chart titles and labels (excluding the chart legend), click the chart to
change all the text to your font and color choices.
To format the text for all data points in one series only, select the text box for one data
point in the series.
To format the text in an axis label, select the text.
To format the text for all series labels, select the series label box.
To change the text in a chart legend, select the legend.
2 Use the format bar or the Fonts window to format the text.