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Deleting, copying, or moving a chart – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Windows 95/NT 4.0 User Manual

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In the Chart Options dialog box, select chart options and make your changes.
To view other chart options, click the Gallery, Axes, Series, Labels, and General
buttons and choose among the options that appear. When you’re satisfied
with the chart, click OK.

Note

AppleWorks provides numerous techniques for setting and changing

the chart’s elements. You can experiment with the various techniques for
working with chart elements described in onscreen Help. If you don’t like
the results, click

on the Default button bar, or choose Undo from the Edit

menu. You can also choose Revert from the File menu, or delete the chart and
make a new one.

Deleting, copying, or moving a chart

A chart is an object that you can delete, cut, copy, move, or resize. To start,
select the chart by clicking it. A selected chart has handles.

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Choose Index from the Help menu and type the first few letters of the entry. Double-click the
entry and then double-click a topic.

Use this option in the
Chart Options dialog box

To set or change

Gallery

Chart type

Axes

Label, scale, and tick marks on an axis

Series

Format and symbol for the data series (value)

Labels

Position and format of the title and legend

General

Chart range, series orientation (in rows or in columns).

How number data (if any) in the top row or left column is
treated (plotted or used for labels).

To

Select the chart and then

Cut or copy a chart

On the Default button bar, click

to cut or

to copy

(or choose Cut or Copy from the Edit menu). Cutting or
copying a chart breaks its link to the chart’s spreadsheet.

Delete a chart

Press Delete

Move a chart to another
location in the same document

Drag it to a new position (not by a handle). Moving a chart
maintains the link to the chart’s spreadsheet.

Resize a chart

Drag one of its handles

Scale a chart to a specific
percentage

Choose Scale By Percent from the Arrange menu and then enter
percentages to scale the chart horizontally and vertically

In the Help index,

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see:

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charts, modifying

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charts, options

In the Help index,

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see:

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charts, modifying