Robins's Visual Chart Form Tips

Person Box

This page created 1 Sep 2014

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Changing Text Content

This has to done on a box-by-box basis. There can be no change of font within a line of a chart. There are3 scenarios here. Select the box, then for:

1. Editing text properties, right-click > Detail Properties and then select the appropriate TEXT line component, click Properties. Here use the Font tab to change the font characteristics and the Text tab to change the text justification and the text content.

2. Editing box line arrangement, right-click > Add a Line or Delete a Line. This refers the last text line of the box. Unfortunately it is not possible to select an intermediate line and delete it.
3. Edit text content, double-click on a box text line. Then use the Windows style of text editing. This is the way to add special content to a box. A succession of cut and paste can be used to collapse out a blank line, etc.

WARNINGS: Best done with 8-10pt text, and viewing ay View > Zoom > Normal. It is not easy for long text content.

Changing Box Width

This has to done on a box-by-box basis. Select the box, then the left or side of the box and drag to the new size. Increasing the width will reduce the number of text line wraps, hence reducing the height of the box. (see Editing Lines and Connectors)

WARNING: The increasing of a box’s width may lead to the overlapping of adjacent boxes. Reducing a wide box to a narrow one may cause the box height to grow to a point where the bottom of the box overlaps another box. It may also trigger the lost character bug (see Limitations of Text.)

Changing Box Outline

This has to done on a box-by-box basis. Select the box, right-click > Detail Properties and then select the Rectangle component, click Properties. Here use the Line tab to set another line width or color. Making changes that increases the line width has consequences on the chart layout. (see Editing Lines and Connectors)

WARNING: Other boxes may need to be moved down to remove steps in connecting lines and in extreme cases the bottom of the box may overlap another box. It may possible to remedy this by increasing the width of the box.

Changing Box Fill

This can be done as described in Line and shape drawing.

Changing Person Image

This operation applies on a box-by-box basis. If a chart was created with the Chart Options > Images tab set to:

1. None then it is impossible to reformat that box text to provide the space to now add an image.
2. Left or Right then it is impossible to select and change that image. However, it possible to cover the original image with a white-filled, no outline rectangle. Then the new image can be placed on top of that rectangle.

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