Essential Graphing • Summary Charts • Chart Platform Options • Y Options
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Y Options
This section describes the Y Options submenu. These commands apply to all Y variables, unless you have a legend level highlighted, then they apply to only the highlighted Y variable.
Click on the legend within a plot to highlight a Y. If you right-click on a highlighted legend level, the commands to modify that Y appear. The commands then affect only the highlighted Y.
Bar Chart
Displays a bar for each level of the chart variables. The default chart is a bar chart.
Line Chart
Replaces a bar chart with a line chart and connects each point with a straight line. Select the Show Points option to show or hide the points. Line Chart is also available as a platform option, which then applies to all charts at once.
Needle Chart
Replaces each bar with a line drawn from the axis to the plotted value. Needle Chart is also available as a platform option, which then applies to all charts at once.
Point Chart
Shows only the plotted points, without connecting them.
Show Points
Toggles the point markers on a line or needle chart on or off.
Connect Points
Toggles the line connecting points on or off.
Show Error Bars
Toggles the error bars on plots of means. Note that this option is available only for plots that involve means of variables.
Overlay Color
Assigns a color to statistics (y-axis) to identify them in overlaid charts.
Overlay Marker
Assigns a marker to statistics, to identify them in overlaid charts.
Pen Style
Selects a line style for connecting lines.
Label Format
Specifies the format, field width, and number of decimals for labels. Thousands separators can be turned on or off. Enter the values in the window that appears.
Note: To see the impact of this change, you must turn on labels. From the red triangle menu, select Label Options > Show Labels.

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Help created on 7/12/2018