Annotating chart in OOo calc

[Johnnie Ingram]

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On 25/09/2009 14:30, Simon Andrews wrote:
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> On 25 Sep 2009, at 14:26, Johnnie Ingram wrote:
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>> Afternoon chaps and chapesses.
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>> Not strictly a Linux question, but I think there's sufficient chance
>> that somebody on this list will have domain expertise to help me. My
>> question is simple:
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>> Am I going out of my mind, or is there no way to add annotations to a
>> chart in OpenOffice.org Calc?
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> Do you just mean adding extra labels / arrows etc on top?  If so then  
> I usually do it by copy/pasting it into OO Draw and editing it there  
> as a picture.
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> Simon.
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That would work as a kludge, I suppose. But what I'd ideally like to do
is to preserve the tabular data in the spreadsheet.

All I'm trying to achieve is to add a couple of balloon-like callouts at
different points on my line graph, saying meaningless mutual
backslapping things like "Here's where we started our new advertising
campaign - look at the corresponding jump in sales" - explanations for
specific points of data on the graph, basically.

I can do it Draw (or by exporting to Inkscape or GIMP) but it seems
bizzare that I can't do it without leaving OOo Calc.

Google image search has given me a good example of what I'm after. The
three callouts in yellow on this image are the sort of thing I'm trying
to get: http://www.omnicharts.com/assets/images/welcome/chart.png


Johnnie

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