### Format Platform dialog

This dialog appears when you right-click a chart and select Format Platform from the shortcut menu. It you to format the platform of the chart and contains the following tabs:

- General tab
- Border tab
- Data tab

OK

Applies the settings and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.

Displays the help document about this feature.

Ignores the setting and closes this dialog.

#### General tab

Specifies the color schema to fill the platform. See the tab.

Color

Specifies the color with which to fill the platform.

To change the color, click the color indicator to select a color, or click More Colors in the color indicator to access the Color Picker dialog in which you can select a color within a wider range or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB, or click More Fill Effects to specify a gradient or an image as the fill effect in the Fill Effects dialog. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency of the color.

#### Border tab

Specifies the properties for borders of the chart platform. See the tab.

Border Type

Specifies the type for border of the platform.

- None
  The object has no visible border lines.
- Raised
  The object has 3D borders that appear as if they are raised off the page.
- Recess
  The object has 3D borders that appear as if they are pressed into the page.
- Shadow
  The object has two shadowed borders, beneath and to the right of the object.
- Solid
  The object has single-line borders (default value).

Color

Specifies the color for border of the platform.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency for color of the border.

Line Style

Specifies the line style to apply to the border of the platform.

Thickness

Specifies the thickness of the border.

End Caps

Specifies the ending style of the border line.

- Butt
  Ends unclosed subpaths and dash segments with no added decoration.
- Round
  Ends unclosed subpaths and dash segments with a round decoration that has a radius equal to half of the width of the pen.
- Square
  Ends unclosed subpaths and dash segments with a square projection that extends beyond the end of the segment to a distance equal to half of the line width.

Line Joint

Specifies the line joint style for the border line.

- Miter
  Joins path segments by extending their outside edges until they meet.
- Round
  Joins path segments by rounding off the corner at a radius of half the line width.
- Bevel
  Joins path segments by connecting the outer corners of their wide outlines with a straight segment.
- Joint Round
  Joins path segments by rounding off the corner at a specified radius.

Radius

Specifies the radius for the border joint of the platform border line. Available only when Line Joint is set to Joint Round.

Dash

Specifies the dash size of border line.

- Auto Adjusted Dash
  If selected, the dash size will be adjusted automatically.
- Fixed Dash Size
  If selected, the dash size will be fixed size.

#### Data tab

Available to heat maps only. In this tab, you can specify whether to calculate the size-by/color-by summary based on logarithm functions. See the tab.

Size by Logarithm

Specifies whether to calculate the size-by summary based on logarithm function.

- None
  Returns the real value of the field instead of any logarithmic value.
- log x
  Gets the logarithm of the field with base 10.
- ln x
  Gets the logarithm of the field with base e.

Color by Logarithm

Specifies whether to calculate the color-by summary based on logarithm function.

- None
  Returns the real value of the field instead of any logarithmic value.
- log x
  Gets the logarithm of the field with base 10.
- ln x
  Gets the logarithm of the field with base e.