think-cell 5.3 – User Guide

– You can also select a contiguous range of features
by holding down the ✄
✂Shift
⇑✁key, moving the mouse
pointer and then clicking with the mouse. Watch how
the affected features highlight while you move the
mouse with the ✄
✂Shift
⇑✁key held down.
Note: In general, you cannot move or resize features.
Features are part of the smart-element and are automatically
placed in accordance to the smart-element’s
placement. If there are for once multiple possible placements
for a feature, you can drag the feature to specify
its location.
The following screenshot shows how all column segments
of the second data series highlight in orange while
they are collectively selected in a ✄
✂Shift
⇑-click ✁ operation:
When you select features, a floating toolbar containing
the corresponding property controls will appear. For the
selection of column segments as illustrated above, for
example the Fill Color control becomes available in the
toolbar:
In our example, we want to change the shading of the
second data series, as required by the scribble on page
Introduction to think-cell 18
14. Therefore, after selecting the column segments of
the series, we choose Accent 2 shading:
Note that the labels automatically turn white to make
them easier to read on the dark background.
Finally, the numbers in our example chart are still displayed
with incorrect precision. According to the scribble,
they should be rendered with one decimal place
precision. To apply this setting to all numbers of the entire
chart, we simply have select the entire smart-element
rather than the individual features, and the floating toolbar
changes to include the Number Format control:
By typing the decimal place into the number format box,
you can specify the desired display format for all numbers
in the chart. Alternatively you can click on the arrow
and select the desired format from the drop down
box. Note that the actual numbers you type or select
do not matter, they only act as an example of the required
formatting (read more in section Number format
on page 33).