Shapes — annotating a report | ATX AnalyticsTable Docs

Shapes — annotating a reportLines, arrows, boxes and speech bubbles; styling, anchoring to cells and drawing order. The Reports ribbon has a Shapes group that draws over the cells: a plain LINE, an ARROW with a head on one end, a DOUBLE ARROW with heads on both (for "these two totals are the same thing"), an ELBOW LINE that turns corners, a RECTANGLE and an ELLIPSE for ringing the cells you want people to look at, a BLOCK ARROW — the large solid road-sign kind — a TEXT BOX for a comment, and a SPEECH BUBBLE whose tail points at what it is about. Shapes work on a sheet and on a dashboard; on a sheet they scroll with the cells.

Where to find it

Reports → Shapes → Line / Arrow / Rectangle / Text box / Speech bubble …

What this page covers

Shapes — annotating a report
Shapes — colour, fill, transparency and text
Shapes — pinning to cells so annotations survive edits
Shapes — which point, which cell, and how far off it
Shapes — the bubble's tail, and joining a note to a figure
Shapes — what draws over what

Settings and controls documented

Text
Pinned end
Pinned cell
Point on the cell
Point on the shape
Gap from the cell
Tail position
Connected to
Point on that object
Draw a line to the pinned cell
Pin to selected cells
Locked

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