Changing the colors, shading, and effects on a graph report

You can change the colors, shading, and other effects on your graph report in a number of ways. For example, you can do the following:

Select a color/shading scheme from the Color Styles drop-down list () on the Graph toolbar. When you select a color/shading scheme for a graph report, the colors of the graph are changed, and shading and other effects are applied as well. For these steps, see To change the colors, shading, and other effects on a graph report below.
Select from several color palettes in the Color Palettes drop-down list ()on the Graph toolbar. When you select a color palette for a graph report, the colors of the graph are changed, but shading and other effects are not applied. For these steps, see To change only the colors of a graph report below.
You can change the colors of the graph, but leave the shading and other effects unchanged. To do this, you select a color palette in the Color Palettes drop-down list on the Graph toolbar. See To change only the colors of a graph report below for steps.
You can change the colors of the graph and also change the shading and other effects. To do this, you select a color and shading style from the Color Styles drop-down list on the Graph toolbar. See To change the colors, shading, and other effects on a graph report below.
Manually format the color of individual objects and apply effects such as gradients to them. For example, you can adjust the color of and apply a texture to the bars of a bar graph. For information on formatting individual graph objects, see Formatting graph objects.
Define metric-specific graph colors that are used when a metric is displayed as a series in a graph. Metric-specific graph colors override any colors defined by the color palettes and color styles selected for the graph, as well as any manual color formatting selected for the series of the graph.

To change only the colors of a graph report

View a report in Graph or Grid Graph view. To do so, from the View menu, select Graph View or Grid Graph View.
On the Graph toolbar, click the arrow next to the Color Palette icon (). A list of available color palettes is displayed.
- If the Graph toolbar is not displayed, from the View menu, select Toolbars, then Graph.
Select a color palette to apply its color scheme to the graph report. The graph report is updated with the new colors.

To change the colors, shading, and other effects on a graph report

View a report in Graph or Grid Graph view. To do so, from the View menu, select Graph View or Grid Graph View.
On the Graph toolbar, click the arrow next to the Color Styles icon (). A list of available color and shading schemes is displayed.
- If the Graph toolbar is not displayed, from the View menu, select Toolbars, then Graph.
Select a color and shading scheme to apply to the graph report. The graph report is updated with the new color and shading scheme.