The Chart dialog box enables you to insert a new chart or modify the existing one.

The dialog box contains three Control Tabs for changing properties of a chart, and a Preview Window to preview the chart before inserting it. These tabs are:

Type tab

This tab enables you to select a type of a chart you wish to create. These types are:

         Different Charts:           Wall Charts: The Style tab

This tab enables you to define style of your chart. The tab is context sensitive to the type of a selected chart. The Style tab is different for: Pie charts, Line charts, and other charts.

The Style tab (Pie Charts)

When a Pie Chart is displayed, the Style tab enables you to modify its appearance.

The chart selection window is located to the left of the tab. Here you can select the chart or the segment of a chart to modify.

The Pie Thickness control enables to modify the height of the pie.

The Pie Style section enables you to set a style of the pie:

The Format section enables you to define the form of your data. If you check Value, the values of data series will be displayed. If you check Percent, the percentages of data series will be displayed.
In this tab you have also the Preview window with orientation sliders controls. These enable you to control orientation of a selected pie. The blank button in the right-bottom corner switches the pie between the plane and its previous position. There are arrows to rotate the pie in the same plane clockwise and counterclockwise. The plus and minus buttons let you zoom the pie in and out. By clicking the tree item in the left pane of the Style tab, you can select a slice you wish to display. There are two more buttons by which you can separate and join back to the pie a segment corresponding to a selected value.
The >> button will apply your changes to the picture in the main Preview window of the dialog box (make sure to check the Preview check box beforehand).

Style tab (Line Charts)

Here you can set appearances of Axes and lines.

There are three axes available X, Y1 and Y2. Y1 and Y2 make it possible to see two different charts in one. It means that you can define two different measurements in one chart.

For each of the axes you can change the following properties:

Label Size has four choices for the labels of the axes:

Grid Lines has the following choices: Minor Ticks defines the number of ticks between the major ticks.

Tick Marks option enables you to switch on/off the tick marks.

Step defines the step between the major ticks.

Max Value sets maximum value for the axes. By default, this function considers maximum value of your data series. To change this to a value other than the default value, use the pull-down menu.

Min Value sets minimum value for the axes. By default, this function considers the minimum value of your data series. To change this to a value other than the default value, use the pull-down menu.

You can get additional options while creating your chart by clicking Data Series... button and getting the Data Series dialog box.

The Style tab (Others)

To make your chart more understandable, you can change Label Size and Grid Style of X and Y Axes.

For Label Size, the following options are available:

For Grid Style, there are the following options: Style tab (Hi-Lo Charts)

In addition to the Lable Size and Grid Style sections, there are two more check boxes in the Style tab for Hi-Lo Charts.

Check the Show Depth box to make the chart bars look deeper.

Check the Full Rotation box to enable full rotation of the chart with all its axes when dragging the sliders in the Preview section. If this check box is cleared, the chart will rotate with respect to one axis when the slider is dragged.

Colors & Data tab

This tab enables you to set values for the chart. To create a table, press the New button and set a number of the Rows and Columns. You can change default names of the axes. Once you set the number of rows and columns, you can Add, Insert or Delete row(s) or column(s).

Add Row(s)/Column(s)

Adds row(s)/column(s) to the end of the list.

Insert Row(s)/Column(s)

Inserts line(s) exactly above a selected row; and column(s) exactly to the left of a selected column.

Delete Row(s)/Column(s)

Deletes selected row(s)/column(s).

To type in the values for the chart, you can double-click the cell or press enter or click a selected cell.

In this tab, you can also set the Colors for the chart. Pressing the Colors button displays the Colors dialog box.

There is the Preview section with sliders for setting the appearance of your chart in the dialog box. Lower slider enables you to rotate the chart from left to right, left slider enables you to rotate the chart from top to bottom. The upper slider sets the width of bars or lines.

For Bar Charts, the two buttons under the Preview window, Horizontal and Symmetric, are available. If you press the Horizontal button alternatively, then Bar charts will turn into horizontal bar charts or vertical ones, respectively. If you press the Symmetric button, the charts containing negative data will be displayed along with the symmetrically equal halves of the X axis (the positive and negative semi-axes are equal). In case the bar charts are arranged horizontally the appearance is changed  vice versa - i.e. the Y semi-axes are turned to be symmetric.