MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
sunshine21 wrote:
Hi! Does anyone know how to make a line break in the title of a chart? For some reason, just pressing return or any combination of return with option, control, shift, etc. does not seem to be working... the title is really long to be on a single line and I'm not able to change the size either.
sunshine21 wrote:
Kind of a pain so hopefully Apple will fix this in the next version! Thanks again!
In case anyone is still struggling with this, you can insert line braks in chart column titles by pressing Option-Return.
kitschpatrol wrote:
In case anyone is still struggling with this, you can insert line braks in chart column titles by pressing Option-Return.
Are you sure? I think your might be talking about tables, not charts.
Badunit,
I think he may be referring to Category Titles, not Chart Names, when he says Option-Return works. Whether he knows it or not.
Jerry
Hi kp,
True for Category titles, which are taken from a header column (see examples— Cat 1 through Cat 4 on table and chart below), but not for the Chart title, which displays an option return as a space, and whose box extends horizontally to accommodate the whole title in a single line, even when that line extends beyond the screen/page boundary (see example on chart).
Table names, when shown, are carried in a box that expands only to the width of the table to which they belong, which led to the example above the chart:
For the table example, there are two tables,
"Table with...title" contains two columns, and is placed behind "Table 1", the table containing the data. Only the first table has the Show title box checked.
Just a parlour trick, though—no advantage I can see to using this method of displaying a long table name over using a text box, as suggested earlier by Jerry.
I can see where your suggestion regarding category names could have some merit, though. Its disadvantage is in doubling the height of the rows from which those names are grabbed.
Regards,
Barry
Yeah my apologies, I jumped the gun. The option-return approach only applies to category titles.
Line Break in Chart Title??
