Chart Definition Options When you are defining a chart in the Chart Builder, you can add titles and change options for the chart creation. Adding and Editing Titles and Footnotes You can add titles and footnotes to the chart to help a viewer interpret it. The Chart Builder also automatically displays error bar information in the footnotes. How to Add Titles and Footnotes E Click the Titles/Footnotes tab. E Select one or more titles and footnotes. The canvas displays some text to indicate that these were added to the chart. E Use the Element Properties dialog box to edit the title/footnote text. How to Remove a Title or Footnote E Click the Titles/Footnotes tab. E Deselect the title or footnote that you want to remove. How to Edit the Title or Footnote Text When you add titles and footnotes, you cannot edit their associated text directly on the chart. As with other items in the Chart Builder, you edit them using the Element Properties dialog box. E Click Element Properties if the Element Properties dialog box is not displayed. E In the Edit Properties Of list, select a title, subtitle, or footnote (for example, Title 1 ). E In the content box, type the text associated with the title, subtitle, or footnote. E Click Apply Setting General Options The Chart Builder offers general options for the chart. These are options that apply to the overall chart, rather than a specific item on the chart. General options include missing value handling, templates, chart size, and panel wrapping. E Click Options Modify the general options. Details about these follow. E Click Apply User-Missing Values Break Variables. If there are missing values for the variables used to define categories or subgroups, select Include so that the category or categories of user-missing values (values identified as missing by the user) are included in the chart. These “missing” categories also act as break variables in calculating the statistic. The “missing” category or categories are displayed on the category axis or in the legend, adding, for example, an extra bar or a slice to a pie chart. If there are no missing values, the “missing” categories are not displayed. If you select this option and want to suppress display after the chart is drawn, open the chart in the Chart Editor and choose Properties from the Edit menu. Use the Categories tab to move the categories that you want to suppress to the Excluded list. Note, however, that the statistics are not
212 recalculated if you hide the “missing” categories. Therefore, something like a percent statistic will still take the “missing” categories into account. Note: This control does not affect system-missing values. These are always excluded from the chart.