Data Element Fills

Specify the order in which fill styles should be used for the bar and area data elements in your new chart. Fill styles are used whenever your chart includes bar or area data elements, and you select a choice that includes patterns in the Style Cycle Preference group in the main Chart Options dialog box.

For example, if you create a clustered bar chart with two groups and you select Cycle through patterns only in the main Chart Options dialog box, the first two styles in the Grouped Charts list are used as the bar fill patterns on the new chart.

To Change the Order in Which Fill Styles Are Used

1. Select Simple Charts and then select a fill pattern that is used for charts without categories.
2. Select Grouped Charts to change the pattern cycle for charts with categories. To change a category's fill pattern, select a category and then select a fill pattern for that category from the palette.

Optionally, you can:

• Insert a new category above the selected category.
• Move a selected category.
• Remove a selected category.
• Reset the sequence to the default sequence.