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Show All chart title bars. Check this box if you want the title barsdisplayed for all charts. To control this option for individual charts, seepage 104.Show All chart toolbars. Check this box if you want the datatoolbars displayed on all charts. To control this option for individualcharts, see page 105. Note that this box has a gray square in it if youhave removed a data toolbar from a single chart that is currentlydisplayed. This is just a visual reminder that checking the box will turnon a chart's data toolbar that you have previously turned off.Show ChartTips. Check this box if you want ChartTips to displaynext to the mouse pointer. ChartTips allow you to quickly display thevalues for a particular plot without invoking any special command. Bysimply positioning the mouse over a plot (e.g., price bar, indicator,moving average, etc.) and holding the mouse pointer motionless for asecond or so, a ChartTip displays, giving you information about the plot.P&F boxes stay square. Check this box if you want P&F boxes tostay square when plotting a point & figure chart (see page 497). Puriststo point & figure charting prefer to have exactly square X and O boxes.However, the advantage of leaving the box unchecked is that the point &figure charts will utilize chart space much more efficiently.Note that if you manually scale the y-axis, this option is ignored becauseit becomes impossible to keep the boxes square.Scroll rescales y-axis. Check this box if you want the y-axis toautomatically rescale when moving through the data using a chart's scrollbar. Checking this box will slow down the scrolling somewhat.However, you can leave this box unchecked and manually rescale the y-axis using the Rescale Y-Axis button on the chart toolbar (see page 86).Ignore weekend data. Check this box if you do not want weekenddata to be displayed in your charts.Use Smart Charts. Choose this option if you want each chart to loadits individual Smart Chart (see page 77) rather than retaining the previouschart's information when using the Change Security commands (see page83). You can also select this option in the Options tab of the Choose aSecurity dialog (see page 84).Use chart as template. Choose this option if you want each chart touse the same set of indicators and styles rather than using each individualSmart Chart when using the Change Security commands (see page 83).You can also select this option in the Options tab of the Choose aSecurity dialog (see page 84).Keep line studies. Check this box if you want line studies to betransferred from one chart to the next when using the Change Securitycommands (see page 83).For most circumstances, you will probably want to leave this boxunchecked, because a line study drawn on one security is rarely useful onanother security's chart (without some adjustments).34 • The Workplace MetaStock Professional