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Format Platform

The Format Platform dialog box is used to format the platform of a chart. It appears when you right-click a chart and select Format Platform from the shortcut menu.

There are the following tabs in this dialog box: General, Border and Data.

OK

Applies the settings and closes this dialog box.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes this dialog box.

Displays the help document about this feature.

Ignores the setting and closes this dialog box.

General

Specifies the color schema to fill the platform.

Color

Specifies the color with which to fill the platform.

To change the color, select the color indicator to select a color from the color palette. You can select More Colors in the color palette to access the Color Picker dialog box in which you can select a color within a wider range, or select More Fill Effects to access the Fill Effects dialog box to specify a gradient or an image as the fill effect. You can also type a color string in the format #RRGGBB directly in the text box. If you want to make the background transparent, type Transparent in the text box.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency of the color.

Border

Specifies the properties for borders of the chart platform.

Border Type

Specifies the type for border of the platform.

• None
  The object has no visible border lines.
• Raised
  The object has 3D borders that appear as if they are raised off the page.
• Recess
  The object has 3D borders that appear as if they are pressed into the page.
• Shadow
  The object has two shadowed borders, beneath and to the right of the object.
• Solid
  The object has single-line borders (default value).

Color

Specifies the color for border of the platform.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency for color of the border.

Line Style

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

Thickness

Specifies the thickness of the border.

End Caps

Specifies the ending style of the border line.

• Butt
  Ends unclosed subpaths and dash segments with no added decoration.
• Round
  Ends unclosed subpaths and dash segments with a round decoration that has a radius equal to half of the width of the pen.
• Square
  Ends unclosed subpaths 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.
• Joint Round
  Joins path segments by rounding off the corner at a specified radius.

Radius

Specifies the radius for the border joint of the platform border line. Available only when Line Joint is set to Joint Round.

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

Available to heat maps only. In this tab, you can specify whether to calculate the size-by/color-by summary based on logarithm functions.

Size by Logarithm

Specifies whether to calculate the size-by summary based on logarithm function.

• None
  Returns the real value of the field instead of any logarithmic value.
• log x
  Gets the logarithm of the field with base 10.
• ln x
  Gets the logarithm of the field with base e.

Color by Logarithm

Specifies whether to calculate the color-by summary based on logarithm function.

• None
  Returns the real value of the field instead of any logarithmic value.
• log x
  Gets the logarithm of the field with base 10.
• ln x
  Gets the logarithm of the field with base e.

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