
The General page has the following options:
- Print Preview: click this button to display a preview of the chart.
- Margins: there are four controls that affect the margins of the chart, one each for the top, bottom, left, and right margins.
- Units: this affects the values of the Margins settings. "Percent" means the margin values are a percentage of the total chart size while "Pixels" means the values are in pixels.
- Cursor: this setting specifies the shape of the mouse pointer when it's over the chart.
The Zoom subpage of the General page has the following options, which affect how zooming into parts of the chart work:
- Allow: turn this option on to allow zooming.
- Animated: turn this option on to zoom with animation.
- Steps: this setting controls the number of steps in the animation.
- Pen: click this button to display the Border Editor dialog for the shape drawn when you drag an area to zoom.
- Pattern: click this button to display the Pattern Color Editor dialog for the shape drawn when you drag an area to zoom.
- Minimum pixels: this is the minimum number of pixels you need to drag the mouse to indicate you want a zoom action to occur.
- Direction: this setting specifies whether you drag the mouse horizontally, vertically, or both to trigger a zoom action.
- Mouse Button: select which mouse button you want to use for zooming from the drop-down list.
- Zoom on Up Left drag: turn this setting on to allow zooming when you drag the mouse up and left. If this setting is turned off, dragging up and left restore the zoom scale to the original size.

The Scroll subpage of the General page has the following options, which affect how scrolling the chart works:
- Allow Scroll: determines if and how scrolling occurs. The choices are None, Horizontal, Vertical, and Both.
- Mouse Button: select which mouse button you want to use for scrolling from the drop-down list.