I try to highlight a bar graph (exported from Excel) by adding an arrow at the tip and the bottom of a specific bar but it drives me nuts, that the grid at which Powerpoint orients itself results in the arrow not being exactly in the middle of the bar. Moving the whole bar graph doesn't bring a solution to this. Can I just move the arrows freely?
Hold down the ALT key while you move the shape with the mouse; that'll temporarily disable snapping to grid.
Or right click off the slide, choose Grid & Guides and turn off Snap To Grid in the resulting dialog box.
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I'm using SSRS 2008 to export data to an excel file. I need 4 worksheets in the file. As a result, I'm inserting a page break after each Tablix. But when there's no data in the page,it's merging the sheet with the next one. I looked up for help, I found one where it says I need to insert a rectangle to avoid this. I'm not sure how I do this. Any help?
To add a rectangle On the Insert tab, in the Report Items group, click
Rectangle. On the design surface, click the location where you want
the upper left corner of the rectangle, and drag to where you want the
lower-right corner. Note that as you move the cursor, "snap lines"
appear as the cursor lines up with other objects on the design
surface. These help you if you want objects to be aligned.
Then I believe you set the page break to occur after the rectangle instead of after the tablix
I have a scrolled window in my application, in which I have created a drawing area widget. In the drawing area, I have placed multiple images. When the user enters information about an image in a search box, the appropriate image gets highlighted.
My problem is how do I get the application to scroll automatically to the highlighted Image box without the user using the scroll bar. The scrolledwindow should automatically move the view region, to display the region where the highlighted Image is present.
The scrolling policy used on the scrolled window is XmAUTOMATIC.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance.
Try XmScrollVisible() if this does not work then you will need to:
1. Find out the size of the work area.
2. Find out the size and position of the clip window.
3. Find out the max/ min values for the horizontal scrollbar.
4. Use XmScrollBarGetValues() for the horizontal scrollbar to get its position within the max/min values.
5. Do some math magic to determine how much to move the horizontal scrollbar to get the work area to show through the clip window.
6. Call XmScrollBarSetValues() with Notify = True.
7. Repeat for the Vertical scrollbar.
HTH
We are trying to do graph like this:
The problem is in red circle. We do not want that arrows to be there. But when we turned them off, the numbers will be overlapped. How to solve it? (Like make arrow invisible etc)
You must put the focus on chart series and press F4 to get its properties. Follow the SmartLabels area and change CalloutLineAnchor property to change the arrow and put another simbol or remove all. You can select Disabled property to remove all simbols also.
I Have created a bar chart in a 2007 .xls file, but the data labels cannot be resized. When you go to the "format Data Labels" and then click on alignment, the Autofit and Internal Margin option is grayed out. Anyone know why?
Short version: It is greyed out for chart text, because it the option doesn’t apply.
Long version:
This is because on a chart, chart text do need to use margins, rather you can you can just move the text., and set its X and Y position. For example take the Chart Title, if you want more space to the left, just click and drag the title to the right. If you want the chart title to be bigger you just set a larger font, you have complete control over the title, as well as all other text on that chart, axis titles, legends, data labels, etc.
Internal margins are meant to be used when you don’t have complete control take for example text in a shape. If you insert a shape in your workbook, and add text to it, you cannot just pick the text up and move it to the right if you want more space on the left, so you can set the margin.
Here's a trick that worked for me:
My problem was: I added more text to the axis title and it was too long for it's original shape so some text went into second line.
My solution: I type the complete text somewhere else, copy the text, double click on the axis title and delete the original text -- the cursor would still be there -- now insert the copied text. Done! They are all in one line!
Partial solution to resize label to a single line: Data labels in a chart will often wrap themselves, when you dont want them to. They would often seem better in a vertical single line above the graph item. Reset them to one single line by editing the text in the label, deleting the Excel imposed return, and replace it with a space. The line, and label box, will resize to fit a single line. However because you have "manually interfered with the lable, it will no longer update for changing graph data. You would have to double click each lable then reset it. Most annoying.
A way around it is to make the chart area big. The data label boxes will resize to fit the words in one line. Then make the chart small (not the chart area).
Manually insert a textbox into the bar chart and type in the label that way. It's annoying and labor-intensive, but it works.
I'd like to automatically pad my shapes with some space so that connectors (e.g. arrows) do not touch the shape, but instead are a few pixels away.
This can be achieved by moving the shape connector points away from the shape, but this is a manual, time consuming process which needs to be done per shape which I would like to avoid.
How can I automatically insert a fixed amount of space between connectors and shapes?
You can do this with a Custom Line End.
If the Drawing Explorer Window is not shown then View Menu > Drawing Explorer Window.
In the Drawing Explorer Window right click on the Line Ends folder.
Click New Pattern.
Give the Line End a name and select Scaled. Click OK.
Right click on the new Line End.
Click on Edit Pattern Shape.
Draw a small line end e.g. an arrow about 0.125 in square or 3 mm square. The arrow should point to the right.
If there line end you created is made of more than one shape group it, e.g. Ctrl+A then Ctrl+G.
Zoom in closely to the shape.
Make sure the Pointer Tool is selected in the Standard Toolbar.
Select the shape.
Mouse over the Shape Rotation Handle e.g. the lollypop.
A new handle should appear with the tooltip Center of Rotation.
Move this handle outside the shape to the right. How far you move will control the offset of your line from the shapes. See image:
Close the Pattern Shape window.
Click Yes to save the pattern.
Select all the lines you want to use the new Line Pattern with.
Format Menu > Line
Change the Line ends: Begin and Line ends: End to the name of your new Line End. The name will be at the bottom of the list.
The lines begin and ends should now appear offset from the shapes they are connected to.
These instructions are for versions of Visio prior to Visio 2010. In Visio 2010 the menu items described are replace with buttons in the ribbon.