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Scatter charts – Apple Pages 2 User Manual

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Chapter 9

Creating Charts

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In the Series pane of the Chart Inspector, choose a symbol from the Data Point

Symbol pop-up menu.

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Fill the symbol by choosing one of the options in the Symbol Fill pop-up menu.

To set the line color and shadow:

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Use the Stroke and Shadow controls in the Graphic Inspector.

For more information about using the Graphic Inspector to set line color, shadow, and

the fill for data point symbols, see Chapter 7, “Changing Object Properties.”

Scatter Charts

Scatter charts display data differently from the other kinds of charts. They require at

least two columns of data to plot values for a single data series. To show multiple data

series, you use additional two-column pairs.

Each pair of values determines the position of one data point. The first data value in

the row is the X-axis of the point. The second data value is the Y-axis of the point.

Here’s what the default scatter chart looks like:

You can view the data for this chart in the Chart Data Editor:

Choose a symbol to use
for data points.

Fill data point symbols
with color or images.