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Chart Text

Use the Chart Text panel to edit a chart’s title, subtitle, labels and legend. This panel contains many options to change the text within the chart.

The Chart Text panel opens from the left sidebar. Use it to update the text in the chart
The Chart Text panel opens from the left sidebar. Use it to update the text in the chart

Titles

  • Title Edit the chart’s title. Titles can have multiple lines; insert a line break using the enter key.
  • Subtitle Add an optional subtitle to the chart. Like titles, subtitles can have multiple lines; insert a line break using the enter key.
  • Title Align The title and subtitle are center aligned by default. Change this setting to ‘Left’ to left align the titles.

Axis Labels

  • Show Axis Labels Enable this setting to show X and Y Axis titles.

  • X or Y Axis Title The text to use as the axis’s title. If the Use Column name checkbox is checked, the title is automatically set to the selected column name of the axis. Uncheck the checkbox to provide a custom title.

Legend

Some charts such as the grouped charts or pie charts, automatically have legends drawn.

  • Show Legend Change this setting to show or hide the legend (if the chart type has one)

  • Show Title Enable this setting to show a legend label above the legend (if the chart has one)

  • Legend Title The text to use as the legend’s title. If the Use Column name checkbox is checked, the title is automatically set to the selected column name of the group axis. Uncheck the checkbox to provide a custom title.

  • Legend Direction Set the direction to Vertical to have the legend on the right side of the chart. Set direction to Horizontal to have the legend items stacked horizontally across the top of the chart.

  • Legend Columns Set the number of columns in a vertical or horizontal legend.

Data Labels

Pie and bar charts can have their individual data pieces labeled. These are called data labels. Below are the options to customize a chart’s data labels.

Data Labels may overlap, especially if there are a lot of labeled small pieces. Try increasing the Label Removal %, or increase the width and height of the chart to reduce label overlap.

Edit the chart's data labels using the Data Labels panel in the left sidebar
Edit the chart's data labels using the Data Labels panel in the left sidebar
  • Show Labels Change this setting to show or hide the chart’s data labels
  • Label Placement Applies to bar charts only. Choose where the labels should be shown (outside the bar, inside top, inside center, inside bottom)
  • Label Removal % Allows you to remove labels from small pieces under this percentage. Helpful when there are lots of small pieces with overlapping labels.
  • Background Show or hide a contrasting background on the data label. Helps data labels be visible on a wide variety of colored bars.
  • Background opacity Set towards 0 to make the background more see through and towards 100 to be more opaque.
  • Text Color Sets the text color of the labels. Choose between 2 text colors, light and dark.

Number Formatting

Number formatting is set to Auto Format by default. Toggle this option off to choose a different format for each numerical axis that contains numbers.

Locale

Use the Number & Currency Locale and Time Locale dropdowns to change the locale of numbers and dates within the chart. The default values are autodetected by your browser.