Format Radar dialog

This dialog appears when you double-click radar in a chart, or right-click it and select Format Radar from the shortcut menu. It helps you to format radars in a chart, and consists of the following tabs:

• General tab
• Fill tab
• Border tab
• Data Label tab

OK

Applies the changes and closes the dialog.

Cancel

Does not retain any changes and closes the dialog.

Apply

Applies all changes and leaves the dialog open.

Help

Displays this help document.

General tab

Specifies the general format of the radar chart. See the tab.

Options

• Show Category Name
  Specifies whether to show the category names on the radar chart.
• Use Fill Radar
  Specifies whether to use colors to fill the radar areas.
  • Radar Fill Transparency
    Specifies the transparency for colors of the radar areas.

Line

• Thickness
  Specifies the thickness for the radar lines, in pixels.
• Node Style
  Specifies the type of node styles on the radar lines.
• Width
  Specifies the width for node styles on the radar lines, in pixels.
• Height
  Specifies the height for node styles on the radar lines, in pixels.

Arrow Style

Specifies the style for arrows on the lines.

• None
  If selected, no style will be applied to the arrows.
• Sharp
  If selected, arrows will be sharp.
• Round
  If selected, arrows will be round.
• Plain
  If selected, arrows will be plain.

Fill tab

Specifies the color, fill effect and transparency for the radar areas. See the tab.

Color

Specifies the color schema for the selected radar areas in the same data series. Click the color image button to display the color palette in which you can select a color, or click More Colors to customize the color within a wider range in the Pick a Color dialog, or click More Fill Effects to customize in the Fill Effects dialog. You can also input the hexadecimal value of a color directly in the text box after # if you have changed the default color.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency of the color schema.

Color List

Opens the Color List dialog to modify color pattern for radar areas in the same data series.

Sample

Displays a preview sample of your selection.

Border tab

Specifies properties for border of the radar, which take effect only when the Border property on chart paper is set to true in the Report Inspector. See the tab.

Border Type

Displays the type for border of the radar. The default value is solid, and cannot be changed.

Color

Specifies the color for border of the radar. Click the color image button to display the color palette in which you can select a color, or click More Colors to customize the color within a wider range in the Pick a Color dialog, or click More Fill Effects to customize in the Fill Effects dialog. You can also input the hexadecimal value of a color directly in the text box after #.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency for color of the border.

Line Style

Specifies the line style to apply to border of the radar.

Thickness

Specifies the weight of the border.

End Caps

Specifies the ending style of the border line.

• butt
  Ends unclosed sub paths and dash segments with no added decoration.
• round
  Ends unclosed sub paths and dash segments with a round decoration that has a radius equal to half of the width of the pen.
• square
  Ends unclosed sub paths and dash segments with a square projection that extends beyond the end of the segment to a distance equal to half of the line width.

Line Joint

Specifies the line joint style for the border line.

• miter
  Joins path segments by extending their outside edges until they meet.
• round
  Joins path segments by rounding off the corner at a radius of half the line width.
• bevel
  Joins path segments by connecting the outer corners of their wide outlines with a straight segment.

Sample

Displays a preview sample of your selection.

Path

Specifies the fill pattern of the border line.

• Outline Path
  Specifies the fill pattern of the border line to be outline path.
• Fill Path
  Specifies the fill pattern of the border line to be whole path.

Dash

Specifies the dash size of border line.

• Auto Adjusted Dash
  If selected, the dash size will be adjusted automatically.
• Fixed Dash Size
  If selected, the dash size will be fixed size.

Data Label tab

Specifies properties for data labels displayed on the radar. See the tab.

Static Data Label

Specifies properties of the static data labels on the radar.

• Show Static Data Label
  Specifies whether or not to show the static data labels on the radar. Only when it is checked can the following static data label related properties take effect.
• Position
  Specifies the position of the static data labels on the radar.
  • auto fit
    The static data labels will be displayed automatically.
• Suppress Label When 0
  If true, the static data label whose value is 0 will not be displayed on the chart. Available to 2-D radar chart only.

Font

Specifies the font format of text in the data labels.

• Font list
  Lists all the available font faces that can be selected to apply to the text.
• Font Size
  Specifies the font size of the text.
• Font Color
  Specifies the font color of the text. Click the color image button to display the color palette in which you can select a color, or click More Colors to customize the color within a wider range in the Pick a Color dialog, or click More Fill Effects to customize in the Fill Effects dialog. You can also input the hexadecimal value of a color directly in the text box after #.
• Transparency
  Specifies the transparency of the text.
• Rotation
  Specifies the rotation angle of the text around its center, in degrees. The default value is 0.
• Shearing
  Specifies the gradient of the text.

Effects

Specifies the special effects of text in the data labels.

• Style
  Specifies the font style of the text. It can be one of the following: plain, bold, italic, and bold italic.
• Strikethrough
  Specifies the style of the horizontal line with which the text is struck through. It can be one of the following: none, thin line, bold line, and double lines.
• Underline
  Specifies the style of the horizontal line under the text. It can be one of the following: none, single, single lower, bold line, bold lower, double lines, bold double, patterned line, and bold patterned.
• Superscript
  Raises the text above the baseline and changes the text to a smaller font size, if a smaller size is available.
• Embossed
  Makes the text appear to be raised off the page in relief.
• Outlined
  Displays the inner and outer borders of each character.
• Subscript
  Lowers the text below the baseline and changes the text to a smaller font size, if a smaller size is available.
• Engraved
  Makes the text appear to be imprinted or pressed into the page.
• Shadowed
  Adds a shadow beneath and to the right of the text.

Related topics:

• Formatting the radar