Title

You can set these title options:

Caption

Enter a title for the graph.

Enabled

This indicates whether the graph title is visible (enabled) or not. If this is not selected, the remaining options do not apply.

Border and Fill

Use this tab to define how the graph title displays.

Line style

Select: Dash, Dash-Dot, Dash-Dot-Dot, Dot, Inside Solid, Solid, Transparent (default).

If any option other than Transparent is selected, you can also select these options:

• Line width (thickness of border from 1 to 10)
• Colour (displays standard colour palette)
• Draw 3D (title will look three dimensional)
• Round corners
• Shadow

Fill method

Select:

• Pattern fill (fills the border title with selected pattern)
• Gradient fill (colour fades from one end of title border to the other)
• No fill (default)

Back colour

Available if gradient or pattern fill options are selected. You can select the background colour for the title.

Pattern style

Available only if pattern fill option is selected. Select from one of several styles to apply to the pattern.

Note: If you select a Transparent pattern style is selected, the option to select a Back colour is removed.

Fade colour

Select the colour into which the background colour fades.

Gradient style

Select horizontal (colours graduate from top to bottom) or vertical (colours graduate from left to right).

Gradient type

Select the way in which colours will fade in the title:

• Fade to colour - the fade colour graduates to the back colour
• Colour to fade - the back colour graduates to the fade colour
• Fade to middle - the back colour graduates from the sides to the fade colour in the middle
• Fade to side - the back colour graduates from the middle to the fade colour to the sides.

Text and Font

Use this tab to define how the title text displays. Font and alignment options are the same as standard options available in Windows applications.

The Angle (Char) controls the angle slant in which the characters in the title display (0 means no angle). The Angle (Text) controls the angle slant in which the entire text string displays (0 means no angle).