The wizard is actually a very useful part of KChart for quickly setting up some basic options like chart type and chart labelling in a few easy steps.
You can run the wizard at any time, it will always preserve your data and other configuration. Also, you can change every single configuration you do with the wizard later as well, without losing anything. In fact the wizard is just a way to set some basic and important options in one go.
To start the wizard simply click on the
icon in the toolbar.
The first step in the wizard is to actually choose the data source. If the selected data area does not match the data you want, select the data now.
Include cells that you want to use as row and column labels, if you want them in the chart.
Then go to the next step with the button. You can also choose at any step if you are already comfortable with the setup done so far.
The next step in the wizard is to actually choose the primary type of the chart. This selection has the most important impact on how your data will be presented. Thus it should be chosen well. You can change the type of the chart with the icons in the toolbar without losing any data or configuration later on. In fact it is even considered normal to test all the various chart types to find the best fitting.
In this example we choose the Lines type. Depending on the chosen chart type different options are available in the following steps.
After chosing the type you can get to the next step with the button.
In case the chosen chart type has various sub types you can choose it in the second step. If the chart type has no sub types, this step will be skipped automatically.
If you decide to change the sub type later, you can do this in the appropriate configuration dialog which will be shown later.
You can simply leave the default selection and go to the next step. Of course you can chose any desired sub type if you want.
In the third step you can set the text for the chart title, the axes and the legend. You can also configure the desired font in detail for each of these.
The last step of the wizard lets you set various options for the axes and other options, depending on the chart type.
You can either choose to accept the options for your chart, go and change various things or simply dismiss all options from the wizard by choosing .
If you choose all your choices in the wizard will be integrated in the chart and you can continue to enter some data and do some fine tuning of various options.
Remember that the chart configuration dialog has many more options available, we will discuss these later.
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