How To Create A 3D Graph in iWork Keynote

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[Phone rings]
Woman: Mac 411, how can I help you?

Man: Yes, I am interested in making some of my graphs and my keynote presentations standout. How can I use 3D graphs to do that?

Woman: Let me show you how.

Part 1: Adding a Graph to your Document.

Male: Here we are in Keynote, and I just created a new document by selecting file new. And then just select any blank document. What I am going to do is I am going to have another chart, and you can have a chart in two ways. You can go to the chart icon, click on it. And this allows you to select the exact chart that you want, whether it is 2D or 3D. The other way to do it is insert chart, but then this will automatically put a 2D chart ion your document.

So, I am going ahead, and go through the chart icon. I will select this 3D chart, click on it. And automatically, it puts an a-chart, with some preset data in there and which of course we will delete, because it does not give sense for our kind of data. And it opens up the chart data editor and the inspector automatically under the chart inspector tab. Now, you can resize this chart easily, and what I am going to do is to scroll down a little bit, you can see its position pretty well. But I want to make it a little bit smaller, and the way to do it is just grab any of these corners. And if you will hold the shift key, it will constraint the actual width and height to match. So there we go. Just resize it, so this is your graph, and this is your legend of the graph. And you can easily remove the legend if you do not want to see it.

Now, let us go through the chart inspector. Now, if the inspector is not open, I am going ahead and close the inspector and I am going ahead and close the chart data editor. The way to open this is, you go to the inspector button here, click on it and that opens it up. Now you maybe at the document level, which is this tab here. Which to do is you want to go to the chart inspector tab, you click on it and there is your chart inspector.

The data editor that you saw that was opened here, you can open it up by clicking on edit data. Your regions are for graphs that allows sets. So for example you can see region 1 and 2 right here for this set. Region 1 and 2 for the next set and so forth. Some of the actual graphs would not allow four sets, so you have to select the appropriate graph type. Now in the inspector, you can change your graph type by just going to the graph button here and selecting a different type of graph. So for example if I want to switch to 2D, I will go ahead and select that and automatically it switches without changing my data. It switches to the 2D. I will go ahead and go back to my 3D and there is my 3D button. The chart color, if you do not like this color, you can select from the variety of different palates. I will go ahead and put this here. And you have 2d to the image fills and 3D texture fills. So you have a variety and then once you select from the type, we have sub-types within it. So for example I can select classic silk, click o n apply all, and automatically it will apply the color set to the graph, so will then click at H-metal. You may do this, and I like that one better. So I will go ahead and close the chart colors.

The show legend, this is your legend. So if you do not want to show the legend, you can de-select it and automatically will take it out. I usually like it. The show title, I am gong to un-select legend for second, it will actually appear here and you can actually just change the title by double clicking it. So we will call this, My data graph. And I am moving down through the chart, we will go through the 3D scene. And let us start with the 3D scene tab. And this is the awesome part, because this allows you to move the chart around in 3D space, so if you just click on this little ball here, and you can drag on the arrows. You can see how I am moving, you can move it up and down, and this allows you to position the graph whichever way you want.

Now you have lighting style which allows you to select the variety of different lightings. So for example if I say glossy, you can see how it is changing - medium center, just a variety of different lights. I like the soft light usually. The chart depth, I will go ahead and scroll the document down a bit, allows you to change the depth of the actual graph which is really, really cool.

Now, let us move on to the access. The access is actually is to put labels on each of the graphs themselves. So under X access, we can say show series labels, and automatically it will show the series like we have it on the labels, but in each access. You can see region 1 for this and region 2 for that. I usually do not have that turned on. Show category labels are those categories underneath the X axis. And this pertains these over here, on your chart data editor. Show category title, you can show a title for the category so scroll down, you can see it right there. I usually have it off, and then you can see grid lines for the X axis. You can see how it just added the grid lines. I will go ahead and de-select that. The Y-axis, you cannot show your labels, so you see those numbers are not there. You can show then on the left, you can show them on the right, or you can put them on auto. And what auto does is, as you move this graph around, if for example, let us go back to 3D scene, and we change it. So now automatically it will appear on the right, instead of on the left. If we go back it puts the back on the left.

Now the value axis, the minimum, this is your minimum, and this is your maximum. And these lines are your steps. So for example, I can do a minimum of 0 as we have it, but a maximum of 200. And then you can see how the data change here. Now instead of 4 steps, let us say, I only want to show 2 steps, so we will go by two steps. If I say 1 step, it will just go from 0 to 100. And you can put as many step as you want to show. The number format, you can add monetary symbols, comma separators and then also any kind of suffix that you want.

Under the series, you can show the value for each of the series. And then you can add decimal point as you can see. You can also on the bar format you can actually separate the gaps between the bars. So for example, if we go up, you can see that there is more gap between the bars and you can add more gap between the sets. So this is a cool way to actually customize your graph.

So let us talk about now, the chart editor. I will go ahead and close the chart inspector. The chart editor allows you to have sets and data to each set. So I will go ahead and actually delete region 2 and you can see that now we are down to basically one set per graph. Now, you can just easily change the data in here by just clicking inside, and adding whatever number you want. So for example, we will go and have this and notice that, as I add numbers, it will take the largest or highest number and set that as my label for the highest.

So for example, if I say, minus 140 for 2007, now my minimum is going to be minus 100. So it actually will adjust that for you. Now let say, we want to add another date, you can just double click on the label here. Type in 2011 you can see that it added 2011; we will go ahead and add a number 450. And there you go, so that is very easy. To add a set to each graph, we will go and say region 2 for this and then we will go ahead and add some numbers. 10, 20, 3, 400, 500. So you can see that it automatically my label has been adjusted and you have the sets right there. So it is very easy to manipulate the data here.

Okay, so let us animate this graph. I will go ahead and close the chart data editor. I am gong to click on my inspector, and you may want to go to the animate tab. Go ahead and click on that, make sure that your graph is selected. Once it is selected on the building, you want to select 3D grow, and you can see right here an example of how it is going to animate. So right now I am sending this 3D grow and the delivery is all at once. What I can do is I can save background first, by series, by set, by elements in series or by element and set. I encourage you to play with each of

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