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Setting chart colors – Apple Keynote 3 User Manual

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Chapter 6

Creating Charts

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To open the shortcut menu for a chart:

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Hold down the Control key and click a chart.

To hide the chart legend:

1

Select the chart.

2

In the Chart Inspector, deselect the Show Legend checkbox.

You can also select the legend and press Delete; you can always display the legend

again by selecting Show Legend in the Chart Inspector.

Setting Chart Colors

You can format the bars, wedges, and area shapes that appear on each type of chart

just as you format any other drawn object. You can give them color fills, gradient fills,

image fills, shadows, opacity, or different line styles. You set these attributes in the

Graphic Inspector.

To change the color or image in a bar, wedge, or area shape:

1

Select the item (bar, wedge, or area shape).

If you select one bar in a bar chart, all the bars in that data series are selected.

2

Change chart properties as you would for any drawn object using the Graphic

Inspector.

The Chart Inspector
button