think-cell 5.3 – User Guide

Once you have manually placed a label at a specific position,
think-cell will respect your decision and maintain
the label’s position even when the chart layout changes.
If you want a manually placed segment label to be put
back into automatic mode, drag the mouse pointer onto
the target Drag here for Automatic or click the Enable
Automatic Placement button from the label’s context
menu.
Note: You can also drag multiple labels at the same
time. To do so, use multi-selection (Multi-selection on
page 23) and move one of the selected labels as a representative.
Label rotation
Many labels can be rotated by 90 degrees counterclockwise
or clockwise. To rotate a label, select it and
drag the rotation handle to the desired position. Labels
that do not show the rotation handle when selected cannot
be rotated.
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Note: You can also rotate multiple labels at the same
time. To do so, use multi-selection (Multi-selection on
page 23) and rotate one of the selected labels as a representative.
Text fields
You can add arbitrary text to all labels that are created
with think-cell. The numbers in the labels are updated
whenever the data sheet changes, even when the label
contains extra text. This is particularly convenient for annotations
or footnote marks. To use this feature, simply
type into the text box as usual.
When you move the cursor or select text, you will notice
that the numbers from the data sheet behave like a
single character. This concept is called a text field. You
can either overwrite the text field or add text before or
after it, but you cannot change it. Any numbers that are
based on the data sheet and are displayed in chart labels,
are created as text fields. Each text field refers to a
certain number created from the Excel data. This could
be a single cell in the data sheet or a calculation involving
multiple cells. Whenever the data source of the text
field is changed, the numbers in the label are updated
to reflect the change.
As long as you do not delete or overwrite a label’s text
field, the numbers in the text box are kept consistent
with the numbers in the data sheet. You may, however,
choose to delete the field and replace it with some other
text or numbers. In this case, the text in the label will no
longer be updated.