1 Graphing

Graphing

Axes

• FAQ-111 How to set equal axis length?
• FAQ-112 How do I add a second nonlinear x or y axis to my graph layer?
• FAQ-113 What customization options are available for graph axis titles?
• FAQ-114 How do I display the top and right axes in a graph?
• FAQ-115 How do I change the position of the X and Y axes?
• FAQ-116 How do I add tick marks to an axis at specific values?
• FAQ-117 How to change the axis order of ternary, clockwise or counterclockwise?
• FAQ-118 How do I add two axis breaks in one graph?
• FAQ-119 How do I put axes on top of data?
• FAQ-121 What can I do if my tick labels are too long and overlapping?
• FAQ-122 How do I format the axis tick labels?
• FAQ-123 How do I display my axis label as percentage or fraction or latitude-longitude degree?
• FAQ-124 How to change the order of tick labels of categorical graph?
• FAQ-125 Can I set tick labels as 0 to 100 for my ternary plot?
• FAQ-126 How to make sure the tick labels are integers when I change major tick number?
• FAQ-659 Is there a way to create several custom tick marks and labels (at user specified locations) on my axes?
• FAQ-683 How do I rescale only the X or Y axis of a graph?
• FAQ-720 When I change the Axis Scale Type of the stacked plots from Linear to Log10, the plots seem weird. How do I fix it?
• FAQ-732 How to align Y axis at certain value for a multi-Y graph?
• FAQ-755 How to set global unit display format for axis title?
• FAQ-801 How do I create an Arrhenius plot?
• FAQ-841 How do I trim unnecessary zero at integer tick labels?
• FAQ-881 How to add an Arrow at the Begin/End of the axis?
• FAQ-959 How to make X axis have two different groups of tick labels?
• FAQ-963 How to set the axis ticks to show unevenly spaced?
• FAQ-966 How to prevent the axis rescaling for 2D graphs?
• FAQ-971 How to display 24:00 as 00:00 in tick label?
• FAQ-992 How can I add a Unicode "real" minus sign to my axis tick labels?
• FAQ-997 How to remove the gap when there is axis break?
• FAQ-1058 My tick labels are chopped by table border. How can I fix it?
• FAQ-1061 How to add break marker at the break region on the plot?
• FAQ-1072 How to show minor tick labels and major tick labels in different font size?
• FAQ-1073 How do I add axis tick label Divide by Factor to axis titles ?
• FAQ-1129 How to set axis scale to Log based on 1000?
• FAQ-1142 Why does my major axis tick increment not update?

Customizing Color

• FAQ-128 Can I use external color palette files to apply color to my plots?
• FAQ-129 Why does transparent color setting fail to work in my contour plot?
• FAQ-130 How do I define custom colors, and will they look the same on other computers?
• FAQ-771 How to color data points in different regions with different colors?
• FAQ-1076 What happened to 5 rows of color variations in Color Chooser?
• How to create colorblind-friendly graphs?

Data Label

• FAQ-132 How to add label to 3D surface plot?
• FAQ-133 How do I label the data points in my graph with the x, y values?
• FAQ-134 How do I show the data values on my bar or column graph?
• FAQ-730 How to add border line for data label?
• FAQ-879 How to start the leader line from the center of symbol?
• FAQ-1007 How do I label data points in a plot with text or numeric values from other columns?
• FAQ-1017 How to show the deleted labels back for a pie chart?
• FAQ-1038 How can I make an "L-shaped" leader line for my data labels?
• FAQ-1056 How to customize data label following the display format of axis tick label?

Drawing Objects

• FAQ-136 How do I add and customize tables in a graph?
• FAQ-137 How do I add logo to all my graphs?
• FAQ-218 Can I paste an external image into a graph page?
• FAQ-621 How can I put a straight line to a graph at specified X or Y value?
• FAQ-624 How to add fill color under selected range of a curve?
• FAQ-713 How can I set same font size for labels in different Layers?
• FAQ-742 How to add the Mean line to my curve?
• FAQ-840 How to add recession bars?
• FAQ-856 Why Origin fails to insert equation to graph?
• FAQ-882 How to distribute graph objects evenly?
• FAQ-947 How to add trendline or smoothed line for a 2D scatter plot?
• FAQ-991 How to add equations and special characters in Graph?
• FAQ-1068 How to insert a graph background image and link to layer scales?
• FAQ-1140 How to keep image size when copying and pasting it from one layout/graph to another?
• FAQ-1146 Origin always inserts MathType object to graph no matter what I selected when using Insert Object button. What should I do?

Layer and Plot Management

• FAQ-139 Can I merge multiple graph windows into one?
• FAQ-140 What is a graph layer and how many layers can I have in a graph page?
• FAQ-141 How do I add and arrange layers to a graph page?
• FAQ-142 How do I manually move and arrange layers?
• FAQ-144 What are the different ways by which I can add data plots to an existing graph?
• FAQ-145 How do I change the order of data plotted in a graph layer?
• FAQ-146 How can I filter dataset based on custom conditions in Layer Contents?
• FAQ-638 How to create an inset graph?
• FAQ-650 How to change the size of a graph layer?
• FAQ-651 How do I merge two graphs that reside in separate Origin projects onto one graph window?
• FAQ-714 How can I group layers?
• FAQ-745 How to insert a similar layer between two layers in a stacked graph?
• FAQ-821 How can I replace/insert a layer in a stacked graph?
• FAQ-830 How to white out a layer?
• FAQ-946 How to show the frame for the 2D graph layer?
• FAQ-1026 How to create a zoom plot for 2D graph?
• FAQ-1148 How to keep image size when pasting to Layout of different page sizes?
• FAQ-1158 Why can't I select graph elements such as plot, layer or text objects?

Text Labels & Legends

• FAQ-148 How Do I Insert Special Characters into Text Labels?
• FAQ-149 How do I insert superscripts, subscripts and Greek symbols into plot legends and axis titles, from worksheet headers?
• FAQ-150 How do I change the relative size of subscripts and superscripts?
• FAQ-151 How do I add the Origin Project Path to a text label?
• FAQ-152 How do I make all text labels in my graph to have one consistent font size?
• FAQ-153 How do I customize the legend?
• FAQ-154 How do I customize the default axis titles and legend?
• FAQ-155 How do I combine multiple legends into one?
• FAQ-156 How does the legend change when adding/removing plots?
• FAQ-157 How do I add a date time stamp to my graph?
• FAQ-158 How do I hide legends of the hidden plots?
• FAQ-159 How can I add a prime or double prime symbol in text labels?
• FAQ-491 How to annotate a point on graph?
• FAQ-719 How to adjust line space betwen lines in the Legend?
• FAQ-726 How to make the legend text color follow the legend symbol color?
• FAQ-757 How to show color scale as separated color ranges?
• FAQ-776 How to edit annotations belong to same plot or plots in same group?
• FAQ-824 When I rescale my graph axis, text labels and drawn objects display outside the graph layer
• FAQ-868 How do I remove the line border or red rectangle from the legend?
• FAQ-928 Why special characters in 2017 becomes gibberish in Japanese Origin 2018 or Latter Versions?
• FAQ-929 How to arrange legend entries into multiple columns?
• FAQ-953 Why the position of the text object has changed after changing the layer size?
• FAQ-1019 How to customize the font color for the labels of a Pie/Doughnut chart?
• FAQ-1040 How to wrap legend text into multiple lines?
• FAQ-1065 How to label each line plot with a legend-type entry?

=FAQ-1162 How to double click to enter In-Place Edit mode of text objects?

Theme and Template

• FAQ-161 What is a graph template and what is a graph theme?
• FAQ-162 What is the System Theme and how does it affect my graphs?
• FAQ-163 How do I share my custom graph settings with my colleague?
• FAQ-164 Is there an easy way to copy graph properties from one graph to another?
• FAQ-165 How to quickly customize graphs using Theme Organizer?
• FAQ-166 How to customize all the plots in scatter matrix at one time?
• FAQ-167 Can I save my formatting for merged graph windows?
• FAQ-677 How do I plot using my own graph template with LabTalk script?
• FAQ-754 How to clone a graph with same data structure from an existing graph?
• FAQ-967 How to change system color lists?
• FAQ-1159 What should I do if I cannot use theme or copy paste format?

3D Graphs

• FAQ-170 How to plot 3D surface directly from XYZ?
• FAQ-171 How to plot function plots?
• FAQ-172 How to clip a 3D graph?
• FAQ-173 How to publish a 3D OpenGL graph with equation(s)?
• FAQ-174 How to move the axis plane manually in a 3D graph?
• FAQ-175 How to plot a 3D ternary scatter graph?
• FAQ-679 How do I plot a 3D curve when values are in spherical coordinates?
• FAQ-702 How can I create a graph that contains multiple 3D XYZ Scatter plots in the same layer?
• FAQ-764 How to create a loosely separated 3D wire frame if your data points are dense?
• FAQ-772 How do I create 3D Waterfall with line and scatter?
• FAQ-832 How to change the specific color in the 3D color map surface?
• FAQ-833 How to customize data when plotting virtual matrix?
• FAQ-866 How do I use Master page in the 3D graph?
• FAQ-918 What are OpenGL 3D graphs requirements and limitations?
• FAQ-949 How to bring my 3D graph back to the original angle of view?
• FAQ-950 How to put multiple 3D graphs into a window?
• FAQ-1039 How to plot 3D Bars side by side?
• FAQ-1167 What should I do if I see a strange color block showed on my 3D graph?

Column/Bar/Pie

• FAQ-178 How do I make negative values in a column graph to plot downwards from zero?
• FAQ-179 How do I change the colors of my bar or column plot?
• FAQ-180 How do I change the individual width of the columns/bars in the graph?
• FAQ-181 How do I create a grouped bar plot from indexed data?
• FAQ-182 How do I create a cumulative histogram plot?
• FAQ-622 How can I create a double Y column plot, so that the two column series have Y-axis of their own?
• FAQ-759 How to create histogram with relative frequency?
• FAQ-892 How to plot evenly spaced column/bar for unevenly spaced numeric X?
• FAQ-994 How to order column or bars in Column/Bar plot?
• FAQ-1035 Why there is additional line on my column graph? How can I turn it off?
• FAQ-1046 How to add connect line for 2D and 3D XYY bars?
• FAQ-1049 How to plot Stacked Column graph with actual X value position?
• FAQ-1060 How to make my Column/Bar plot start from axis?

Contour

• FAQ-184 How can I plot 4-dimensional (4D) data in Origin
• FAQ-185 How do I create a contour and surface graph from my XYZ data?
• FAQ-186 How can I move the labels in contour plot?
• FAQ-187 How can I create a heat map?
• FAQ-637 How do I display grid lines in my contour graph?
• FAQ-657 Why can't I turn off the speed mode setting in my contour plot?
• FAQ-758 How to generate grid directly from XYZ contour plot?
• FAQ-763 How to reduce unevenly spaced XYZ data?
• FAQ-488 How to get the polygon area within a contour line?
• FAQ-822 Why do my contour and surface plots from XYZ data look different in version 2016 and higher?
• FAQ-890 How to add a "missing" contour label at a specific location?
• FAQ-896 How to rescale the colormap if the data in the worksheet changes?
• FAQ-925 Why the contour line labels disappear from my contour plot?
• FAQ-1015 How to customize Heatmap?
• FAQ-1044 Can I specify an anchor point which the middle color is mapped to and ticks must pass through?
• FAQ-1051 How to add a boundary to a contour plot?

Line and Symbol

• FAQ-189 How do I display my line plot without gaps when I have missing data?
• FAQ-191 How to customize a single data point in the scatter plot?
• FAQ-192 How to fill the area between two line curves?
• FAQ-672 After I plot a spline curve, how can I access the spline data?
• FAQ-807 How can I customize line segments in a Line Series plot?
• FAQ-817 How do I add drop lines to a 2D line plot?
• FAQ-818 Why are dashed lines not working in my line + symbol plot?
• FAQ-846 How to avoid drawing small error bars inside open plot symbols?
• FAQ-874 How to color regions in a line plot?
• FAQ-957 How to break the connect line between two adjacent data points of Line + Symbol graph?
• FAQ-986 How to remove line between two points on a Line+Symbol plot?
• FAQ-996 How to connect data points within groups?
• FAQ-1033 The end of my line is round. How can I make it to be square?
• FAQ-1109 How to create user-defined symbols in Scatter plot?
• FAQ-1149 How to create Create a Double-Y Line Series Plot?

Multi-Axes/Multi-Panel

• FAQ-194 How do I create a double Y axis graph?
• FAQ-668 Is it possible to plot 2 significantly different sets of Y values on the same X scale where each each Y data set has its own Y axis?
• FAQ-860 How to create a multi-panel graph by group?
• FAQ-943 Is there a way to make simultaneous edits to all panels in a multi-panel graph?
• FAQ-945 How to extract panels into individual graphs?
• FAQ-951 How to move plots across layers?
• FAQ-999 How to turn off the Common Display controls?

Box Chart

• FAQ-196 How can I rotate a box chart?
• FAQ-1047 How to show and customize data points in a box chart?
• FAQ-1062 How to make statistical bar start from bottom axis?
• FAQ-1088 Why are there duplicated points on my box chart?

Specialized

• FAQ-198 How to display negative radius points in a polar plot
• FAQ-199 How to plot a polar graph from x and y coordinates?
• FAQ-201 Is there a way to zoom in to a ternary graph?
• FAQ-203 How do I set custom offsets for the curves in my waterfall plot?
• FAQ-204 How to reverse the order of curves in a waterfall plot?
• FAQ-205 What is the difference between 2D and 3D waterfall plot?
• FAQ-703 How do I make a Windrose plot in Origin?
• FAQ-717 How do I use LabTalk to make P-P or Q-Q Statistical Plots?
• FAQ-749 How do I plot 3D Waterfall with LabTalk?
• FAQ-773 How to plot the bounds of 90% confidence intervals in probability or Q-Q plot?
• FAQ-779 How to create a 2D nested function plot?
• FAQ-960 How to caculate the area under the curve in a 2D ternary graph?
• FAQ-1010 How to create an implicit function plot?

General

• FAQ-207 How does an X column of text values get plotted?
• FAQ-208 Why do I have to uncheck many columns when plotting with Plot Setup?
• FAQ-209 How do I plot multiple columns from different worksheets?
• FAQ-210 What is grouping and how does it affect operations on my graph?
• FAQ-211 How do I create a function of two variables?
• FAQ-212 Inserting Origin Data Plot Symbols in Other Applications
• FAQ-213 How to use the custom colors defined in old Origin version?
• FAQ-214 How to change the plot type?
• FAQ-215 How can I reset scale to show all plots after data update?
• FAQ-217 How can I change the graph size to be country dependent when printing?
• FAQ-620 How do I shut off speed mode for all my graphs?
• FAQ-652 How to check if my data plots are grouped, if not how to group them?
• FAQ-663 How to specify the graph size by using LabTalk Script
• FAQ-664 My dashed lines appear incorrectly or not at all in Page view, Print Preview, or my printout. What do I do?
• FAQ-669 How to plot 2D and 3D error bars?
• FAQ-681 How to import a image graph into Origin?
• FAQ-700 How can I turn off Actively Update Plot?
• FAQ-753 How to interactively show or hide plots on a graph?
• FAQ-715 What are the unsupported graph types when open Excel workbook in Origin to plot?
• FAQ-718 How to Plot Multiple Blocks of Data from Same Column as Separate Data Plots?
• FAQ-813 How to show X Error option in Plot Setup dialog?
• FAQ-838 How to transpose a virtual matrix?
• FAQ-861 Why my graphs/sparklines have large unexpected margin?
• FAQ-885 What should I do if I stuck in the zooming-and-panning mode?
• FAQ-921 How to show plots smoother?
• FAQ-934 Why is there a character "C" on my graph?
• FAQ-944 Why are there some characters I can't remove, such as Legend, XB, XT, YL, YR?
• FAQ-952 How to keep line trend around the axis break?
• FAQ-954 How to put the source data and the graph together in one window?
• FAQ-956 Why my graphs in WPS can not be opened by double-clicking?
• FAQ-958 How to reduce the data points of the plot regularly?
• FAQ-972 Can I modify the tooltips that appear when I hover on data plots in my graph?
• FAQ-984 Why can't I select graph objects by mouse clicking?
• FAQ-1006 Why my data on frame can not be clipped?
• FAQ-1032 Density Scatter Plot Validation
• FAQ-1133 How do I hide the speed mode banner?
• FAQ-1136 Why is (my legend missing/graph slow/graph exporting or merging with large white space)?

Publishing

• FAQ-441 How do I export graphs with exact size and resolution as specified by publishers
• FAQ-442 How do I control the size of the graph I copy from Origin and paste into Microsoft Office
• FAQ-443 Why is the text in my exported graph distorted
• FAQ-444 What is Speed Mode and how does that affect my graph and my graph export?
• FAQ-445 How do I set up and print a large graph page on multiple sheets?
• FAQ-446 What options exist for pasting graphs in other applications?
• FAQ-447 How to export 3D OpenGL graphs in good quality but smaller file size?
• FAQ-449 Known issues of copy-paste an Origin graph to Corel Draw
• FAQ-452 Why does the font size in Origin graph not match the same font text created in Word?
• FAQ-448 When I export graphs with embedding fonts as PDFs in Remote Desktop, the embedded fonts are missing. What should I do?
• FAQ-602 How do I control the settings of Speed Mode in Origin for plotting, printing and file export?
• FAQ-617 What to do if the color printer only prints black?
• FAQ-649 When I export my graphs from Origin, the exported image looks different than what I see on screen. Why is that?
• FAQ-697 How can I paste graph into PowerPoint with the certain size?
• FAQ-795 How do I export graphs as EPS or PDF file with editable text?
• FAQ-803 When I print a graph with overlapped layers, the layer are not aligned correctly. How can I solve it?
• FAQ-804 How to troubleshoot exporting PDF problems
• FAQ-814 When I create a PDF from MS Word, the data extend beyond the axes of my Origin graph.
• FAQ-816 How do I insert graphs as new slides in my currently opened PowerPoint presentation?
• FAQ-828 How do I export graph as AI?
• FAQ-836 How do I export graphs to windows sub-folders with the same folder structure as in Origin's Project Explorer?
• FAQ-843 Can I save F(x)= label row formulas with an OGG file or graph that I paste to MS Word?
• FAQ-869 Why do lines in my graph export look jagged?
• FAQ-876 How to export a part of the graph?
• FAQ-911 How to keep the graph legends position/size when export graph as vector formats (PDF, EPS, EMF)?
• FAQ-985 Why does the export quality of graph with small size fail to be as good as the one of large size?
• FAQ-1001 Origin Graphs copied to Excel do not update when changes are made in Origin
• FAQ-1005 Why the exported graph size is much smaller than the page size set in Origin?
• FAQ-1016 How do I do if the font size in the exported graph becomes small?
• FAQ-1018 How to fix the font size for a Word object inserted into a graph?
• FAQ-1041 Why does the embedded graphs fail to show in my Word file?
• FAQ-1063 How to change my slideshow order in OriginPro?
• FAQ-1084 Why is the exported 3D vector graph not editable?
• FAQ-1108 Why there is always a sole longer dash showing in my dashed line plot?
• FAQ-1125 What should I do if the exported EMF file cannot be opened in AI?
• FAQ-1141 Copying Origin graph and pasting as image to other application doesn’t work. What should I do?
• FAQ-1147 When I copy Layout graph as EMF to Word 365, the quality is damaged. What should I do?
• FAQ-1157 Why do my tick labels become much smaller when exporting to image or video?
• FAQ-1164 When I export graph as SVG or EPS, the objects inserted to the graph become extremely large. What should I do?