Format Surface

The Format Surface dialog box is used to format the surface in a surface chart.

Format Surface dialog

Graph Border

Specifies the properties for the border of the surface.

Show Border
Specifies whether to show the border of the surface. When it is selected, the following border properties are enabled.
- Line Style
  Specifies the line style to apply to the border.
- Color
  Specifies the color of the border.
- Thickness
  Specifies the thickness of the border, in inches.
- Transparency
  Specifies the transparency for color of the border.

Hint

Specifies properties of the data marker hint.

Show Category and Series
Specifies whether to include the category and series values in the data marker hint.
Auto Scale in Number
Specifies whether to automatically scale the values displayed in the data marker 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.
By default it is set to auto which means that the setting follows that of the chart platform.

Applies the changes and closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Does not retain any changes and closes the dialog box.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.