Changing Chart Styles

You can change the layout of any group of boxes within your chart by selecting from one of the chart styles. There are four types of chart styles:

·         Chart Styles: Arranges peer boxes relative to their immediate manager.

·         Assistant Styles: Arranges assistant boxes relative to their immediate manager.

·         Co-Manager Styles: Groups a set of boxes as co-managers.

·         Advanced Styles: If required, you can use advanced styles to arrange peer boxes in multi-column styles relative to their immediate manager.

You can also define Chart Rules that enable you to change branch styles within a chart based on a condition. For example, if an employee’s title includes the word “assistant”, you can create a rule that changes the branch style to an assistant style. See Creating Chart Rules in Working with Charts: Advanced Charting for more information.

To change chart styles:

1        Select the boxes whose style you want to change.

2        Click the Home tab and select Chart Styles from the Styles section to display the Chart Styles options.

3        Choose a chart style from the displayed chart style options.

The following example shows the effect of applying the  assistant chart style to the assistants of Chris Phillips.

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To use advanced chart styles:

1        Select the boxes whose style you want to change

2        Click the Home tab and select Chart Styles from the Styles section to display the Chart Styles options.

3        Select Advanced Chart Styles  to display the Advanced Chart Styles dialog box.

·         Define the following, as required:

·       Advanced Style: Select multi-column tree  or multi-column pair .

·       Alignment: Select how peer boxes are to be aligned.

·       Maximum number of boxes per row: Select the maximum number of boxes that can be located on any row within a style group.

·       Maintain banding: Selecting this option ensures that each box stays on its current row when other boxes are added or deleted. This is useful if rows are used to represent seniority. For example, the first row might contain permanent employees while the second row contains temporary employees.

4        Click OK to apply the changes and close the dialog box.