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3. The preferences menu
3.1 Graph preferences
Using the Preferences – Graph Preferences option will give you the following options:
Line Colour – either choose industry standard or random colours for your graph
data
Default Shapes – setting Default Shapes ON will place shapes on your graph
data lines to make it easier to distinguish them if you print in black and white
Grid Lines – setting this option ON will apply grid lines to your graph background
Cross Hair – setting this option to ON will permit you to see horizontal and
vertical lines, which appear when you click on any part of the graph, enabling
you to read the axis values easier
Line Thickness – this option allows you to control the thickness of the Graphing
lines
Tariff to Apply – this option allows you to set which tariff is applied to any
graphs/reports that contain kW data. You have to have created a tariff within the
system to be able to do this (please refer to The tariff menu on page 16)
3.2 Change excel location
Using Preferences option the Change Excel Location menu item allows you to pinpoint
where on your PC you have Excel installed.
The default location for the installation of Excel is C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office, but some users may have this software on another drive or another
location.
More recent versions of Office have seen the Excel software being installed in any of the
following locations:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office13
etc.