What Is a Chart Frame?
Adding and Editing a Frame
Tool Panel Buttons for Editing a Frame
Frame Lines
Frame Title
Removing a Frame
A chart frame is a border or perimeter around the four edges of the chart. It is comprised of one or two lines. The chart frame can be selected and edited using tool panel buttons. You can click directly on the frame to select it; or, if the chart frame is not yet defined, you can click at the chart's perimeter.
To add a frame (or border) to a chart, click near the perimeter of a chart (near any edge) to select the frame area and you should see the tool panel buttons change.
Click the
or button to choose which of the two frame lines to edit.The first group of buttons is used to change the line depth, corner style, and line color. Select None for the line depth if you don't want a line to appear. Line thickness can be between a hairline and five points. Interesting frames can be created by checking the
button for one of the frame lines.Note: Before making changes to the frame title, scroll the chart so that you can see the frame title at the top of the chart window.
Reunion will automatically include a title, as part of the frame. When a frame is selected, use the second group of buttons in the tool panel to edit the title. These buttons let you change the title's: font, font size, font style, color, text shadow depth, and text shadow color.
Note that increasing the depth of the title's shadow also increases the shadow offset from the title.
The
button lets you determine what kind of "break" appears in the chart's frame, to permit insertion of the title. If you don't want a title in the frame, click the button and choose None.To enter a title, you can double-click the chart's frame or choose
This will open the Frame Title window, shown below.Frame titles may include tags (or text variables) to automatically inject text strings into the title of a chart.
Up to 125 characters may be used for a chart title.
To increase or decrease the size of text in the chart's frame title, select the frame (by clicking and highlighting it) and then use the Title Font Size menu on the toolbar, or press Command+< or Command+>.
To remove a frame and title, click on the frame to select it and then press the Delete key.
To make individual lines of a frame disappear, choose None for the line width of the
and/or , as shown below. Keep in mind that frames have two lines.In the previous sections, various frame attributes were explained (line depth, corner style, title color, etc.). These attributes can be saved and applied to frames in new charts. Thus, if you edit a frame and are pleased with its look, new charts will have the same look.
To save the attributes of a chart frame as the default frame appearing in new charts...
More information about defaults for charts appears here.