The Titles tab lets you define titles to use for your graph. It includes the following controls and tabs:

Title: Lets you set the location of the titles you want to use. The Titles sub tabs apply to the Title that is currently selected in the Title drop-down list.

Style Tab

Use the Style tab to display and create a selected title. Type the text of the title in the text box on the Style tab. The Style tab contains the following controls:

• Visible: Lets you display the selected title.
• Adjust: Lets you wrap the frame behind the selected title to the size of the title text.
• Frame: Each title can have a frame behind it (see Format Tab). By default, this frame is transparent. If you turn off transparency to see the frame, the frame can be sized to the width of the graph or set to snap to the width of the title text. Select the Adjust Frame check box to set the width of the frame to the width of the title text; clear this check box to set the width of the frame to the width of the graph.
• Alignment: Lets you set the alignment of the selected title.

Position Tab

Use the Position tab to set the placement of the selected title. The Position tab contains the following controls:

• Custom: Lets you set a custom position for the selected title. Select this check box to set a custom position.
• Left/Top: Lets you set the location of the selected title relative to the left and top of the graph. If you select the Custom check box, use these settings to position the selected title.

Format Tab

Use the Format tab to set and format a background shape behind the selected title. The Format tab contains the following controls:

• Color: Lets you set a color for the fill of the shape you create behind the selected title. The Color Editor opens, see the Color Editor Dialog Box topic.
• Frame: Lets you define the outline of the shape you create behind the selected title. The Border Editor opens, see the Border Editor Dialog Box topic.
• Pattern: Lets you set a pattern for the fill of the shape you create behind the selected title. The Hatch Brush Editor opens, see the Hatch Brush Editor Dialog Box topic.
• Round Frame: Lets you round the corners of the rectangular shape you create behind the selected title. Select this check box to round the corners of the shape.
• Transparent: Lets you set the fill of the shape you create behind the selected title as transparent. If the shape is completely transparent, you cannot see it, so clear this check box if you cannot see a shape that you expect to see.
• Transparency: Lets you set transparency for the shape, where 100 is completely transparent and 0 is completely opaque.

Text Tab

Use the Text tab to format the text used in the selected title. The Text tab contains the following controls:

• Font: Lets you set the font properties for the text. This opens the Windows Font dialog box.
• Color: Lets you select the color for the text. Double-click the colored square between Font and Fill to open the Color Editor dialog box (see the Color Editor Dialog Box topic).
• Fill: Lets you set a pattern for the text.
• Shadow: Lets you set a shadow for the text. Visible—Lets you display a shadow for the text. Select this check box to display the axis label shadow. Size—Lets you set the location of the shadow. Use larger numbers to offset the shadow by a large amount. Color—Lets you set a color for the shadow. You might set this to gray but can set it to any other color. The Color Editor opens. Pattern—Lets you set a pattern for the shadow. The Hatch Brush Editor opens. Transparency—Lets you set transparency for your shadow, where 100 is completely transparent and 0 is completely opaque.

Gradient Tab

Use the Gradient tab to create a gradient color background for your axis title. The Gradient tab contains the following controls:

• Visible: Sets whether a gradient displays or not. Select this check box to display a gradient you have set up, clear this check box to hide the gradient.
• Direction: Sets the direction of the gradient. Vertical causes the gradient to display from top to bottom, Horizontal displays a gradient from right to left, and Backward/Forward diagonal display gradients from the left and right bottom corners to the opposite corner.
• Angle: Lets you customize the direction of the gradient beyond the Direction selections.
• Start: Lets you set the starting color for your gradient.
• Middle: Lets you select a middle color for your gradient. The Color Editor opens. Select the No Middle Color check box if you want a two-color gradient.
• End: Lets you select the final color for your gradient.
• Gamma Correction: Lets you control the brightness with which the background displays to your screen; select or clear this check box to change the brightness of the background on-screen. This does not affect printed output.
• Transparency: Lets you set transparency for your gradient, where 100 is completely transparent and 0 is completely opaque.
• Sigma: Lets you use the options controls. Select this check box to use the controls in the Options tab.
• Sigma Focus: Lets you set the location on the chart background of the gradient's end color.
• Sigma Scale: Lets you control how much of the gradient's end color is used by the gradient background.

Shadow Tab

Use the Shadow tab to create a shadow for the background for the selected title. The Shadow tab contains the following controls:

• Visible: Lets you display a shadow. Select this check box to display the shadow, clear this check box to turn off the shadow effect.
• Size: Set the size of the shadow by increasing or decreasing the numbers for Horizontal and/or Vertical Size.
• Color: Lets you set a color for the shadow. You might set this to gray but can set it to any other color.
• Pattern: Lets you set a pattern for the shadow.
• Transparency: Lets you set transparency for your shadow, where 100 is completely transparent and 0 is completely opaque.

Bevels Tab

Use the Bevels tab to create rounded effects for the background for the selected title. The Bevels tab contains the following controls:

• Bevel Outer: Lets you set a raised or lowered bevel effect, or no bevel effect, for the background for the selected title.
• Color: Lets you set the color for the bevel effect that you use; inner and outer bevels can use different color values.
• Bevel Inner: Lets you set a raised or lowered bevel effect, or no bevel effect, for the inside of the background for the selected title.
• Size: Lets you set a thickness for the bevel effect that you use; inner and outer bevels use the same size value.