SPSS Statistics for Dummies, 3rd Edition

Chapter 18

Editing Charts and Chart Templates

In This Chapter

Editing graphs and charts

Applying templates to charts

In Chapter 12, you see how to make simple graphs and fancy graphs. This chapter explains how to edit these graphs to create a better visual representation of the information in the chart. This chapter also helps you learn how to showcase the most important information to your audience.

Although this chapter doesn’t cover every type of edit you can make to a chart, you can use the steps here as a baseline to explore additional edit options. When you get the basic idea of how to edit graphs using the Chart Builder, you can continue to explore making edits on your own.

Changing and Editing Axes

An axis on a chart or graph acts as a reference that gives information on how variables are related. In this section, we explain how to edit an axis to help better represent the information in a graph.

Changing the axis range

In Chapter 12, you create a differenced area graph (refer to Figure 12-17). As you can see in the graph, there is empty space between the bottom of the graph and where the information begins along the y-axis. Here we explain how to edit the y-axis so that the range of the axis begins at 50. (Refer to Chapter 12 if you need to re-create the graph.)

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