Origin provides these moveable, sizeable child windows for importing, organizing, analyzing, graphing and presenting your data: Also, see the following topic, for more information: Basic Child Window Operations
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The Origin workbook provides a framework for importing, organizing, analyzing, transforming, and plotting your data. The workbook is structured like a notebook and can between 1 and 121 sheets. In turn, each sheet may contain more than 1 million rows and up to 10,000 columns of data. Each worksheet column can be configured to efficiently store data of various types. This serves a dual purpose in that it (1) tells Origin something about how the data should be treated when performing graphing or analysis operations and it (2) allows you to allocate memory most efficiently.
In addition to containing data, the workbook window may also store annotations, column-based functions, scripts and programmable button objects, LabTalk variables and import filters.
For more information, see these topics:
Like the worksheet, a matrix sheet is a grid of cells, arranged in rows and columns. The primary difference however, is that in the worksheet, each column is a dataset, and each column may be configured to contain data of varying data storage requirements (text, text & numeric, numeric (double), numeric (int), etc).
In contrast, the matrix is a single, numerical dataset of Z values, related in the XY plane by row and column index numbers. In order to create a 3D wireframe, 3D surface, or 3D bar graph, you must have your data in an Origin matrix.
For more information, see these topics:
Origin supports over 60 1D, 2D and 3D chart types, chosen specifically for their applicability to various technical fields. Each of these chart types is based on a built-in, user-modifiable graph template that can be saved with your custom settings.
One of the most powerful features of Origin's graphs is the graph layer. Each graph layer has a set of axes that can be configured to chart various types of data on various scales. Layers may be arranged in any number of ways on the page -- partially or completely superimposed or arranged in an N x M panel arrangement, for instance. Additionally, layer axes may be linked by size or scale value so that changes to a parent layer are reflected in one or more linked child layers.
In addition to data plots, the graph may also contain annotations (text and drawing objects) or button objects that, when triggered, perform some custom graphing or analysis routine.
For more information on graphs and graph customization, see these topics:
The function graph is a specialized graph window that displays a curve described by a function. The function graph differs from other Origin graphs in that there is not a dataset of discreet values associated with the plot.
For more information, see Plotting and Creating Datasets of Mathematical Functions.
The layout window allows you to combine and arrange graph and worksheet windows and various annotations onto a single "display panel." It is used primarily for creating presentations. For more information, see these topics:
Excel workbooks can be opened or created in Origin. Workbooks can be saved separately or as part of your Origin project file.
For more information, see these topics:
The Notes window is a text-only window used for recording analysis procedures, making notes to students and colleagues, and cutting and pasting text from other applications.
For more information, see Notes Windows.