think-cell 5.3 – User Guide

The snapping behavior serves the following purposes:
– With snapping, objects can be quickly and easily
aligned. The highlighting of a border of some other
object on the slide indicates that the smart-element
you are moving is currently aligned with that object.
– When resizing a smart-element, it snaps to its preferred
size. In the case of a column chart, its preferred
width depends on the number of columns. If you have
manually changed the size of the chart, you can easily
change it back to the default width: It will snap when
you come close enough.
As in PowerPoint, you can hold down the ✄ ✂ Alt✁key to move
the mouse freely without snapping.
The smart-element is automatically selected after insertion,
as indicated by a blue highlighted outline. If the
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smart-element you want to modify is not selected, you
can select it by clicking on it. Although the highlighting
of selected smart-elements looks different, selecting
smart-elements works the same way as selecting ordinary
PowerPoint shapes.
Adding and removing labels
After inserting a new column chart, both category labels
and series labels are shown automatically. There
are several ways to remove and add labels. The easiest
way to remove a single label is to select it and press
the ✄
✂Delete✁key.
The easiest way to remove all labels of a
particular type is to select the respective button from the
chart’s context menu.
To remove the series label like in our example column
chart, click Remove Series Label in the smartelement’s
context menu. To access the context menu of
a smart-element, move the mouse to a point within the
smart-element’s rectangle where there are no other objects
and click the right mouse button. Read more about
editing text labels in chapter Text labels on page 30.