Change the Patterns and Colors in a Display

To help highlight different categories in bar and pie displays, you can specify colors, patterns, or gradients for each series of bars or pie slices.

Patterns are especially useful when printing in black and white. For line displays, you can specify the color, line type and marker type of each line in the display.

PowerPlay® has a 16-color palette. If a display requires more than 16 colors, colors are repeated in more than one series.

In a pie display, all categories whose values are less than 10% of the total display are grouped in a slice labeled Other. You cannot modify the default color of this slice.

Procedure

  1. Click the arrow to the right of the chart button, and click Chart Options.
  2. Click the Palette tab.
  3. Select the formatting that you want to apply.
  4. Click OK.