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Easier 3D charts with new version: Perspector 3.2

By Tim Hards | July 25, 2007

We released Perspector 3.2 earlier today. It’s all about charts…

You might have loved the charts that you created with Perspector before, but you probably didn’t like it when you wanted to update your chart with new values. You would have found that you had to recreate your chart whenever you wanted to change a value! But no more!

Perspector 3.2 has a button which brings up a table of the values used in the chart. When you OK your changes, the chart is updated.

This change isn’t limited to modifying individual values, or renaming series and categories. You can delete whole rows and columns in the grid, or enter new ones, and the number of series or categories in the chart will be modified accordingly.

You will also be interested to hear that you can now create charts using data entered into this grid. You aren’t limited anymore to having to use data from Excel or a PowerPoint table.

This flexibility is pretty useful - you can now generate charts from the data in any program that copies data to the clipboard as tab-delimited values. Simply copy your values, and then paste them into the grid.

Perspector 3.2 also has better handling of data values. You now have control over how the data is organized: whether the chart series is stored in the rows or in the columns of the data. This setting is identified automatically, but you can toggle the setting in the Chart Properties box.

See more details and screenshots. Don’t forget that if you already own a version of Perspector 3, you are entitled to a free upgrade - follow the link for details.

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