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Format Stock Dialog

The Format Stock dialog helps you to format the stock in a stock chart. It appears when you right-click a stock line in a stock chart and select Format Stock from the shortcut menu, or double-click a stock line of a stock chart.

The dialog contains the following tabs: General, Border and Data Label and Hint.

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 the help document about this feature.

General

Specifies the general format of the stock chart.

Stock Line

Specifies properties for the stock lines.

• Color
  Specifies the color schema for the stock lines. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette or input the hexadecimal value (for example, 0xff0000) of a color in the text box.
• Thickness
  Specifies the thickness of the stock lines, in pixels.

Stock Bar

Specifies properties for stock bars of an Open-High-Low-Close stock chart.

• Up color
  Specifies the color schema for stock bars that stand for the stocks that the Open value is lower than the Close value.
• Down color
  Specifies the color schema for stock bars that stand for the stocks that the Open value is higher than the Close value.
• Bar Width
  Specifies the width of the stock bars.

Border

Specifies properties for the border of the stock bars.

Show Border

Specifies whether to show the border of the stock bars. When it is selected, the other border properties in the tab will be enabled.

Color

Specifies the color of the border.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency for color of the border.

Line Style

Specifies the line style to apply to the border.

Thickness

Specifies the weight of the border, in pixels.

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

Data Label

Specifies properties for the data labels displayed on the chart. Not supported on stock chart.

Hint

Specifies properties for the hint of the stock chart.

Show Category and Series

Specifies whether to include the category and series values in the hint.

Auto Scale in Number

Specifies whether to automatically scale the values displayed in the hint that are of the Number data type when the values fall into the two ranges:

• When 1000 <= value < 10^15, the following quantity unit symbols of the International System of Units are used to scale the values: K (10^3), M (10^6), G (10^9), and T (10^12).
• When 0 < value < 0.001 or value >= 10^15, scientific notation is used to scale the values.

The option "auto" means that the property setting follows that of the chart.

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