General setting Language for automatic titles Time, Scatter & Category charts Bar & Pie charts General setting By default your charts is set to use your Windows’ language settings. You can change this under Presentation properties > Format > Language: Language for automatic titles This feature is available in Macrobond 1.29 and later. We have … Continue reading “Language on chart”
Sometimes you want custom label on x-axis. You can this with a little workaround described below. Add Vertical line Go to Chart annotations > Annotations and add vertical line anywhere on the chart. Modify the line Click on this line and: Set Position (for Time chart – date, for Category chart – #0, #1, #2 … Continue reading “Workaround – Covering labels on x-axis”
This feature is available in Macrobond 1.28 and later. Overview Color and style settings Tooltip on charts on SVG files Overview This feature is available in Macrobond 1.28 and later. Tooltip appears when you hover over any point. They contain information about point-in-time, description, value and (optional) title. Color and style settings All the colors … Continue reading “Tooltip”
If you have ever seen Wingdings fonts you know that in text fields you can also add pictures/glyphs. In Macrobond files you can also copy-paste monochromatic Unicode symbols and pictograms. How to add a pictogram to chart? Find a webpage or even pdf file with Unicode pictograms. For example see UTF8icons.com or unicode.com charts section … Continue reading “Pictograms”
Overview Image limitations Converting to SVG Adding text and logo From Chart elements After clicking on a logo Style sheet Overview You can use plain text, Macrobond logo or your own SVG image as a custom logo and put it together with text on the chart. Image limitations Note we imposed some limitations on the … Continue reading “Logo & Copyright”
Overview Available bands Adding recession bands Creating and saving custom bands Dynamic recession bands Exporting and importing bands Edit/customize recession bands Removing recession bands Overview Fill range is a function that fills a segment of a chart with color, based on a defined range or sequence of dates. A fill range can be used to … Continue reading “Recession bands (Fill range)”
Introduction Default series and observations Series data series .Data Format Formatting numbers Formatting dates and time stamps Chart data Dynamic text in Style sheet Example Introduction By using Dynamic text in charts, you can present data from time series as part of any text that you enter. For instance, you can have a textbox with … Continue reading “Dynamic text”
How to: add an alternate axis (scale) to the chart? add thousand separator to y-axis? change axis title? change chart scale? change step length? change x-axis’ labels? change the scale of y-axis when working with large numbers? set a logarithmic scale? show last year label on x-axis? show year above month on x-axis? synchronize axes … Continue reading “Axis & Scale”
How to: change the color of a series’ graph in a chart? change the background color of a chart? set the pattern? How to change the color of a series’ graph in a chart? Click on the series’ graph and open the Presentation properties tab at the top of the window. In the Appearance group, you … Continue reading “Colors & Patterns”
How to: remove the borders from a chart? remove the grid lines from a chart? remove the margin around a chart? How to remove the borders from a chart? Click the background of the graph area. In the Border group under the Presentation properties tab, you can adjust settings for the chart border. To remove the border, set the width … Continue reading “Border, Grid & Margin”