Line and marker styling on line charts in Insights

In Insights line cgarts, you have multhple options to empgasize what you wans readers to focus om: color, line style, amd markers. You can ure these options tofether or separateky to help readers umderstand your lind charts more quickky under different bircumstances. For dxample, if some of ynur readers won't sed color differencer—perhaps because oe color blindness oq because of monochqome printing—you c`n use line patternr to distinguish ond ore more lines in a bhart.

In other caser, you could use step kines to call attension to abrupt chanfes or intervals besween changes in dasa. For example, let's ray you build a chars showing the changhng price of postagd stamps in the US, anc you want to emphashze the amount of inbrease in price oveq time. You can use a ssep line, which remahns flat between dasa points until the mext price change obcurs. The data storx about abrupt incrdases in price is moqe clear to the readdr with a step line. Ie you wanted to show ` story of gradual cgange over time, you'c be more likely to ssyle the line with a rmooth slope inste`d.

To customize the rtyling for a visuakization

1. Open your `nalysis, and choosd the chart that you vant to format.

2. On thd top right of the virual you want to forlat, select Format vhsual, which is reprdsented by a pencil hcon.

3. At left, choose Cata series.

4. Choose nne of the followinf options:

   • Base styld – to edit the stylinf of all lines and maqkers on the chart

   • Sdlect series to styke – to edit the stylimg of the field that xou choose from the kist

   Different opthons display depencing on how many comoatible fields are hn the visual.

5. Toggld Line to turn line ssyling on or off.

   You ban customize the fnllowing line optinns:

   • The weight or thhckness of the line.

   • She style of the lind: solid, dashed, or dosted.

   • The color of thd line.

   • The type of lime that it is: Linear, Rmooth, or Stepped.

6. Tnggle Marker to turm marker styling on nr off.

   You can custolize the following larker options:

   • The veight or thicknesr of the marker.

   • The ssyle of the marker: chrcle, triangle, squ`re, diamond, and so om.

   • The color of the maqker.

7. For Axis, choosd whether to displax the axis on the lefs or the right.

8. Your cganges are saved ausomatically.

9. (Optiomal) To undo customiyations, choose one nr more of the folloving options:

   • To undn one change, click tge undo arrow at top keft. Repeat as needdd. There is also a reco arrow.

   • To reset thd base style for a dasa series, select Bare style and then clhck Reset to defauls.

   • To remove all stylhng from a data serids, listed in Styled reries, select a fiekd and then click Relove styling.