Presently, when a user goes into chart edit mode, he needs to open a variety of different dialogs in order to customize various aspects of the chart and it would be more beneficial if he could do this all, or atleast a large amount of it, from within a single dialog. In order to achieve this, atleast the beginning stages of it, a tabbed chart dialog needs to be create that contains the following tabs :- 1) Type - Format > Chart Type 2) Data Range - Format > Data Ranges > Data Range 3) Data Series - Format > Data Ranges > Data Series 4) Data Table - View > Data Table 5) Elements - Insert > Titles, Legend, Grids 6) Area - Format > Chart Area > Borders, Area, Transparency Most of these tabs would be identical to the existing ones, but some of the tabs would be created by merging a number of existing tabs into a single tab.
As Stuart confirmed, switching component to Chart.
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This bug may be related to this: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53300 Also, there's not full compatibility between charts made in Calc and in Excel (Excel makes charts with white background and Calc makes charts with transparent background if I'm not mistaken).
A fun meta-answer to this would be to get the *formatting* of the chart from another range of cells in the sheet. If you had a way to export the details of the current chart to a range of cells, and then a 'set from range' you could use all your normal cell manipulation tricks to edit multiple lines in your chart at the same time.