Charts
- Introduction
- Theory
- Document Structure
- Chapter Headings
- Chapter Numbering
- Table of Contents
- Outline
- Navigator
- Text Body
- Paragraph styles overview
- Reusing styles
- Default Page Formatting
- Title Page
- Papers without a Title Page
- Pages with and without numbering
- Roman Page Numbering
- Group Work
- Proofreading
- Numbered lists and bullets
- Line numbering
- Cross-references
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- Quotes
- Tables
- Charts
- Pictures
- Snapshots
- Presentations & Graphics
- Cross tables (Statistics)
- Extra Long Web Adresses
- Fonts
- Emphasis
- Special Characters
- Non separable combinations
- Shortcut keys
- Mouse clicks
- PDFs
- Saving your files
- Several files open at once
- Search and replace
- Spell Check
- Synonyms
- Document Infos
- Labels and Form letters
- Help
- Installing Program
- Microsoft Word
- Practice I
- Practice II
You can present the information contained in Table 3 in the shape of a Chart as in illustration 23. Here is how to go about it:
- mark the whole table (rows and columns) using mouse
- in the menu choose Insert › Object › Chart: a new chart gets created
- in the pop-up window choose the kind of chart you want (e.g. bar or pie chart) and add a title)
- confirm your choices pressing Finish
- right click on your Chart to provide it with a meaningful (numbered) caption.
- if you would like a light yellow coloured background like in illustration 23, triple click anywhere on the area (until it appears with a grey border), then right click on same area and choose Format Chart Area; under the tab Area you can choose a colour, and under the tab Transparency you can make it lighter by applying say 80%; on the whole, light colours are better, especially if you are printing on a transparency
Note that as soon as you click on a graph, the symbols on your menu change, offering you a number of shortcuts.
Be careful not to clutter your page with too many graphs and illustrations. OpenOffice Writer is not a programme for designing magazines – use the freeware “Scribus” for that. Its great strengths lie in dealing with lots of text with a few graphs thrown in. In case you do come across the problem of one graph partly covering another, add one empty paragraph below the first graph and make your second graph Anchor to this new empty paragraph. Every graph or frame needs a separate anchor point! Anchoring graphs to paragraphs is the standard behaviour. But you could anchor it to the Page, so that it stays fixed and doesn’t move up or down with the paragraph.
