You can move an items position by selecting it with the mouse and dragging it to where it’s required. If the ‘Tools’ option ‘Snap to Grid’ is enabled then all items start in a specified grid point, if switch this off then all bar data items can be set anywhere within the grid cell.
You can delete an item by selecting it with the mouse and pressing the <DELETE> key.
If you right-click with the mouse on any item then a menu is available allowing you to change the properties.
Right-clicking against a Text item allows you to access the properties in full and allows individual options to amend the font, set the background colour, add (or remove) a border, right-align the text, or snap to the grid.
You can also reset the font/colour to default values or save the font and colour to the palette for application to another item using the Set option.
You can also delete the text item from here.
Right-clicking against a Data item allows you to access the properties box in full and allow individual options to amend the font, amend the background colour, add (or remove) a border, or to right-align the data item.
As with text you can reset the font/colour to default values, save/set the font and colour from the palette or delete the item.
Right-clicking against a Line item allows you to access the properties in full, amend the line colour, snap the line to the grid and to delete the line.
Right-clicking against a Box item allows you to access the properties in full, amend the background (fill) colour of the box, set/clear round corners, snap the box to the grid and to delete the box.
Right-clicking against an Image item allows you to access the properties of the image or to delete it.
Article ID: 1646
Created On: Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:58 PM
Last Updated On: Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 4:31 PM
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