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Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- Welcome to Pages
- Overview of Pages
- Creating a Document Using the Pages Templates
- Formatting a Document’s Layout and Table of Contents
- Setting Page Orientation and Size
- Setting Page Margins
- Creating Columns
- Varying Column and Page Layouts
- Creating a Document With Left- and Right-Facing Pages
- Adding Headers, Footers, Page Numbers, Footnotes, and Endnotes
- Varying Document Formatting Using Section Breaks
- Adding a Repeated Background Image
- Using a Table of Contents
- Formatting Text and Paragraphs
- Working With Styles
- Working With Graphics andOther Media
- Changing Object Properties
- Creating Tables
- Adding a Table
- Using Table Cells and Borders
- Formatting Tables
- Adding Images or Background Colors
- Formatting Numbers
- Sorting Cells
- Autofilling
- Using Formulas
- A Tour of Using Formulas
- Adding a Quick Formula
- Removing a Formula
- Using the Formula Editor to Add and Edit Formulas
- Using Cell References
- Adding a Formula to Multiple Cells
- Performing Arithmetic Operations
- Using Predefined Functions
- Operators and Functions for Advanced Table Formula Users
- Defining Formulas That Use Operators
- Defining Formulas That Use Functions
- Creating Charts
- Personalizing Documents With Address Book Data
- Printing and Exporting Your Document to Other Formats
- Designing Your Own Document Templates
- Index
202 Chapter 9 Creating Charts
Inserting a Chart
To add a chart inline with text:
1 Place the insertion point wherever you want the chart to appear in the text flow.
2 Click Objects in the toolbar and choose Chart (or choose Insert > Chart). A chart
containing placeholder data appears on the page. The Chart Inspector and Chart Data
Editor open.
To place a fixed chart:
1 Click anywhere outside the text areas of the document so that no insertion point is
visible.
2 Click Objects in the toolbar and choose Chart (or choose Insert > Chart). A chart
containing placeholder data appears on the page. The Chart Inspector and Chart Data
Editor open.
3 Drag the chart to wherever you want it to appear on the page.
You can also draw a chart on the page.
To draw a chart on the page:
1 Hold down the Option key while you click Objects in the toolbar and choose Chart.
2 Release the Option key and move the pointer over the page until it becomes a
crosshair.
3 Drag across the page to create a chart any size you want.
Resizing a Chart
To resize the chart on the page:
m Select the chart in the page and drag the active selection handles.
Selecting a Chart Type
Pages provides numerous types of charts to choose from, including bar charts, 3D bar
charts, line charts, 3D line charts, pie charts, and more. After you’ve placed a chart on
a page, you can change its type and format it using the Chart Inspector.
To open the Chart Inspector:
m Click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then click the
Chart Inspector button.