Resizing or rotating a chart, Formatting chart axes – Apple Pages '09 User Manual

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Resizing or Rotating a Chart

There are several techniques for rotating 2D charts. You can’t rotate (or flip) 3D charts.
If a 3D chart is grouped with 2D charts, you can rotate the group, but only the 2D
charts in the group will rotate.

Here are ways to resize or rotate a chart:
To resize a chart, select the entire chart, and then do any of the following:

Drag an active selection handle. Active selection handles have a black outline.

The selection handles on the top of inline charts are inactive. To resize an inline
chart, drag the active handles on the lower right side.
To maintain a chart’s proportions, hold down the Shift key as you drag to resize it.

To resize a chart in one direction, drag a side handle instead of a corner handle.

To resize by specifying exact dimensions, click Inspector in the toolbar, and then

click the Metrics button. You can specify a new width, height, and angle of rotation,
and you can change the chart’s distance from the margins.

To rotate 2D charts, select the entire chart, and then do any of the following:

Select the chart, hold down the Command key, move the pointer toward an active

selection handle until it changes to a curved, double-headed arrow, and then drag a
selection handle.
To rotate a chart in 45-degree increments, hold down the Shift and Command keys

while dragging a selection handle.
Click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Metrics button, and then drag the Rotate

wheel or use the Angle controls to set the angle of the chart.
Pie charts can also be rotated using the Chart Inspector. See “Resizing or Rotating a
Chart” on page 230.

Formatting Chart Axes

In column charts, area charts, line charts, and bar charts, data points are plotted on one
axis (the y-axis for column, area, and line charts; the x-axis for bar charts) and data sets
are grouped on the other axis. The data point axis is called the value axis, and the data
set axis is called the category axis.

In scatter charts, both the x and y axes are value axes. In 2-axis charts, there are two
y axes—Value Axis (Y1) and Value Axis (Y2)—which can be formatted separately.
For more details about 2-axis charts, see “Customizing 2-Axis and Mixed Charts” on
page 244.

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Chapter 10

Creating Charts from Data