Applies to

Smartsheet
  • Pro
  • Business
  • Enterprise

Apply Custom Formatting to Your Chart

PLANS

  • Smartsheet
  • Pro
  • Business
  • Enterprise

Find various chart formatting options (for example, changing the font on the titles & legends) underneath their respective sections on the right side of the Edit Chart Widget form.

To do this

Follow these steps

Switch how columns and rows are plotted on your chart for a different view of the data

ClickSwitch rows/columns

Chart only on certain columns from the selected range.

ClickColumns Includedand select only the columns you want to display.

Change the chart type

Click the tile of the chart type that you want to use

Add a title to your chart and/or axes

Expand theTitle & Legendsection and enter your titles as needed

  • When adding a title, make sure theShow Titletoggle is turned on.
  • To change the format of a title, click in that title’s text in and then use the formatting buttons to make changes to that title

Add or move a legend on your chart

Expand theTitle & Legendsection and select one of the following options:

  • None
  • Top
  • Right
  • Bottom

Add gridlines to your chart (except Pie Charts)

Expand the Horizontal Axis or Vertical Axis sections and enable theShow tick mark linestoggle

Label slices of a pie or donut chart with percentage of the whole or actual values

Expand the饼状图orDonut Chartsection, make sure thatSlice Labelis checked, and use the dropdown to select one of the following:

  • Percentage
  • Value

Change the colors of data or add labels to data plotted in your chart

Expand the Series section and choose which item to apply formatting to.

NOTE: The Default option will apply to all data in the chart

Ignore the text labels that you’ve typed in the cells of your table

Check the box forUse column names as labels

Edit the interaction of the widget (interaction is what happens when you click the widget)

ClickEdit Interactionand choose one of the interaction options:

  • Do nothing (no action)
  • Open the source sheet
  • 去to a URL
  • Open a Smartsheet item

Line charts: fill the area below the line with the line's respective color

Expand theSeriessection and check the box forFill

Pie and Donut charts: display as a half-pie or half-donut

Expand the饼状图orDonut Chartsection and check the box forSemicircle

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