# Formatting Charts
URL: https://docs.valsight.ai/chart-configuration/
Description: Sort, scale and format charts and tables so they read the way you want, from axis scales to table styles and overlapping labels.
Once a chart shows the right data, formatting is what makes it readable: order, scales, colors, table styles, and what to do when labels collide.

Select a chart and the chart editor opens on the right. The settings are spread over three sections of it, and a few live outside it altogether:

| Section                  | What it holds                                                                                              |
| ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Axes**                 | Which levels sit on which axis, their order, and comparisons                                               |
| **Formatting**           | Number and legend toggles, **Scales and Digits**, and the styling dialog for data series, columns and rows |
| **Advanced Formatting**  | **Stack Totals**, empty data series, cross effects, **Bridge Settings** and other per-chart-type options   |
| Outside the chart editor | A node's own default scale, and the workspace setting for responsive text                                  |

## Charts

| If you                                                           | Go to                                                                           |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Put the level values in a custom order                           | [Sorting Level Values](/sorting-level-values/)                                  |
| Show a change as a delta or a percentage                         | [Delta Comparisons](/scenario-time-or-dimension-level-comparison-delta/)        |
| Set the scale, decimals or range of an axis, or add a second one | [Axis Scales and Decimals](/axis-scales-and-decimals/)                          |
| Cut a large value range so small differences stay visible        | [Y-Axis Breaks in Charts](/y-axis-breaks-in-charts/)                            |
| Set the color, text style or value visibility of a data series   | [Styling Data Series, Columns and Rows](/styling-data-series-columns-and-rows/) |
| Stack data series and label their total                          | [Stacking and Stack Totals](/stacking-and-stack-totals/)                        |
| Scale one node's numbers everywhere it is charted                | [Default Scale Settings in Nodes](/default-scale-settings-in-nodes/)            |
| Let text scale with the size of the window                       | [Responsive Chart Text Sizes](/responsive-chart-text-sizes/)                    |
| Get back values that disappeared where labels collide            | [Overlapping Data Labels](/overlapping-data-labels/)                            |

## Tables

| If you                                                       | Go to                                                                           |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Switch the table style, resize columns or merge header cells | [Table Formatting](/table-formatting/)                                          |
| Mark subtotal and total rows, or indent them                 | [Styling Data Series, Columns and Rows](/styling-data-series-columns-and-rows/) |

## Related

* [Data Display in Charts and Tables](/data-display-in-charts-and-tables/): which data a chart or table shows, and at which aggregation.
* [Chart Types](/chart-types/): which chart or tile to use in the first place.
* [Creating Charts](/creating-charts/): adding a chart, duplicating one, and saving a configuration as a template.