Using Graph Stylesheets

Basic graph display information, such as colors, fonts, symbols, and line thickness, are controlled by a stylesheet. There is a default stylesheet supplied with IBM® SPSS® Modeler; however, you can make changes to it if you need. For example, you may have a corporate color scheme for presentations that you want used in your graphs. See the topic Editing Visualizations for more information.

In the graph nodes, you can use the Edit mode to make style changes to the look of a graph. You can then use the Edit > Styles menu to save the changes as a stylesheet to apply to all graphs that you subsequently generate from the current graph node or as a new default stylesheet for all graphs that you produce using IBM SPSS Modeler.

There are five stylesheet options available from the Styles option on the Edit menu:

• Switch Stylesheet. This displays a list of different, stored, stylesheets that you can select to change the look of your graphs. See the topic Applying Stylesheets for more information.
• Store Styles in Node. This stores modifications to the selected graph's styles so that they are applied to any future graphs created from the same graph node in the current stream.
• Store Styles as Default. This stores modifications to the selected graph's styles so that they are applied to all future graphs created from any graph node in any stream. After selecting this option, you can use Apply Default Styles to change any other existing graphs to use the same styles.
• Apply Default Styles. This changes the selected graph's styles to those that are currently saved as the default styles.
• Apply Original Styles. This changes a graph's styles back to the ones supplied as the original default.