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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 or hide tick marks at specific values on axis?

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 to draw gridlines on top of data, or prevent fill area covering the ticks?

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-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?

FAQ-1076 What happened to 5 rows of color variations in Color Chooser?

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-136 How do I add and customize tables in a graph?

FAQ-137 How do I add logo to all my graphs?

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-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 or offset of subscripts and superscripts?

FAQ-151 How do I add the Origin Project Path to a text label?

FAQ-152 How to keep the font size from changing when the graph is resized?

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-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-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-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 2D/3D 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-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 labels in my contour plot?

FAQ-187 How can I create a heatmap?

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-194 How do I create a double Y axis graph?

FAQ-196 How can I rotate a box chart

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-207 How does an X column of text values get plotted?

FAQ-208 Is it possible to automatically assign plotting designations in 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-218 Can I paste an external image into a graph page?

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 distorted in my exported graph or copy page and paste to Word, PowerPoint?

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-488 How to get the polygon area within a contour line?

FAQ-491 How to annotate a point on graph?

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-620 How do I shut off speed mode for all my graphs?

FAQ-621 How can I put a straight line to a graph at specified X or Y value?

FAQ-622 How can I create a double Y column plot, so that the two column series have Y-axis of their own?

FAQ-624 How to add fill color under selected range of a curve?

FAQ-637 How do I display grid lines in my contour graph?

FAQ-638 How to create an inset graph?

FAQ-649 When I export my graphs from Origin, the exported image looks different than what I see on screen. Why is that?

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-652 How to check if my data plots are grouped, if not how to group them?

FAQ-657 Why can't I turn off the speed mode setting in my contour plot?

FAQ-659 Is there a way to create tick marks and labels at user specified locations only on my axes?

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-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-669 How to plot 2D and 3D error bars?

FAQ-672 After I plot a spline curve, how can I access the spline data?

FAQ-677 How do I plot using my own graph template with LabTalk script?

FAQ-679 How do I plot a 3D curve when values are in spherical coordinates?

FAQ-681 How to import an image into Origin?

FAQ-683 How do I rescale only the X or Y axis of a graph?

FAQ-697 How can I paste graph into PowerPoint with the certain size?

FAQ-700 How can I turn off Actively Update Plot?

FAQ-702 How can I create a graph that contains multiple 3D XYZ Scatter plots in the same layer?

FAQ-703 How do I make a Windrose plot in Origin?

FAQ-713 How can I set same font size for labels in different Layers?

FAQ-714 How can I group layers?

FAQ-715 What are the unsupported graph types when open Excel workbook in Origin to plot?

FAQ-717 How do I use LabTalk to make P-P or Q-Q Statistical Plots?

FAQ-718 How to Plot Multiple Blocks of Data from Same Column as Separate Data Plots?

FAQ-719 How to adjust line space betwen lines in the Legend?

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-726 How to make the legend text color follow the legend symbol color?

FAQ-730 How to add border line for data label?

FAQ-732 How to align Y axis at certain value for a multi-Y graph?

FAQ-742 How to add the Mean line to my curve?

FAQ-745 How to insert a similar layer between two layers in a stacked graph?

FAQ-749 How do I plot 3D Waterfall with LabTalk?

FAQ-753 How to interactively show or hide plots on a graph?

FAQ-754 How to clone a graph with same data structure from an existing graph?

FAQ-755 How to set global unit display format for axis title?

FAQ-757 How to show color scale as separated color ranges?

FAQ-758 How to generate grid directly from XYZ contour plot?

FAQ-759 How to create histogram with relative frequency?

FAQ-763 How to reduce unevenly spaced XYZ data?

FAQ-764 How to create a loosely separated 3D wire frame if your data points are dense?

FAQ-771 How to color data points in different regions with different colors?

FAQ-772 How do I create 3D Waterfall with line and scatter?

FAQ-773 How to plot the bounds of 90% confidence intervals in probability or Q-Q plot?

FAQ-776 How to edit annotations belong to same plot or plots in same group?

FAQ-779 How to create a 2D nested function plot?

FAQ-795 How do I export graphs as EPS or PDF file with editable text?

FAQ-801 How do I create an Arrhenius plot?

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 EPS/PDF problems

FAQ-807 How can I customize line segments in a Line Series plot?

FAQ-813 How to show X Error option in Plot Setup dialog?

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-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-821 How can I replace/insert a layer in a stacked graph?

FAQ-822 Why do my contour and surface plots from XYZ data look different in version 2016 and higher?

FAQ-824 When I rescale my graph axis, text labels and drawn objects display outside the graph layer

FAQ-825 Can I send layout to PowerPoint?

FAQ-828 How do I export graph or layout as AI?

FAQ-829 How can I right-align legend text or arrange the graph legend horizontally?

FAQ-830 How to white out a layer?

FAQ-832 How to change the specific color in the 3D color map surface?

FAQ-833 How to plot with virtual matrix?

FAQ-836 How do I export graphs to windows sub-folders with the same folder structure as in Origin's Project Explorer?

FAQ-838 How to transpose a virtual matrix?

FAQ-840 How to add recession bars on a 2D graph?

FAQ-841 How to show trailing zeros in axis tick labels, such as 1.0 for 1?

FAQ-843 Can I save F(x)= label row formulas with an OGG file or graph that I paste to MS Word?

FAQ-846 How to avoid drawing small error bars inside open plot symbols?

FAQ-856 Why Origin fails to insert equation to graph?

FAQ-860 How to create a multi-panel graph by group?

FAQ-861 Why are my graphs cut off, shrunken, or have extra white space when copy-pasted to Word or PowerPoint or are exported as EMFs, PDFs, or EPSs?

FAQ-866 How do I use Master page in the 3D graph?

FAQ-868 How do I remove the line border or red rectangle from the legend?

FAQ-869 Why do lines in my graph export look jagged?

FAQ-874 How to color regions in a line plot?

FAQ-876 How do I reduce the white space around my graph when exporting?

FAQ-879 How to start the leader line from the center of symbol?

FAQ-881 How to add an Arrow at the Begin/End of the axis?

FAQ-882 How to distribute graph objects evenly?

FAQ-885 What should I do if I stuck in the zooming-and-panning mode?

FAQ-889 How to add asymmetric error bars for your 2D or 3D plot?

FAQ-890 How to add a "missing" contour label at a specific location

FAQ-892 How to plot evenly spaced column/bar for unevenly spaced numeric X?

FAQ-893 I see an "Out of Memory" error message when I copy page to PowerPoint. What is wrong?

FAQ-896 How to rescale the colormap if the data in the worksheet changes?

FAQ-911 How to keep the graph legends position/size when export graph as vector formats (PDF, EPS, EMF)

FAQ-914 Why can not reopen Origin by double clicking the graph copied to other software?

FAQ-918 What are OpenGL 3D graphs requirements and limitations?

FAQ-921 How to show plots smoother?

FAQ-925 Why do the contour line labels disappear from my contour plot?

FAQ-928 Why special characters in 2017 becomes gibberish in Japanese/Chinese Origin 2018 or Latter Versions?

FAQ-929 How to arrange legend entries into multiple columns?

FAQ-934 Why is there a character "C" on my graph?

FAQ-943 Is there a way to make simultaneous edits to all panels in a multi-panel graph?

FAQ-944 Why are there some characters I can't remove, such as Legend, XB, XT, YL, YR?

FAQ-946 How to show the frame for the 2D graph layer?

FAQ-947 How to add trendline or smoothed line for a 2D scatter plot?

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-951 How to move plots across layers?

FAQ-952 How to keep line trend around the axis break?

FAQ-953 Why the position of the text object has changed after changing the layer size?

FAQ-945 How to extract panels into individual graphs?

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-957 How to break the connect line between two adjacent data points of Line + Symbol graph?

FAQ-958 How to reduce the data points of the plot regularly?

FAQ-959 How to make X axis have two different groups of tick labels?

FAQ-960 How to calculate the area under the curve in a 2D ternary graph?

FAQ-963 How to set the axis ticks to show unevenly spaced?

FAQ-966 How to prevent the axis rescaling for 2D graphs?

FAQ-967 How to change system color lists?

FAQ-971 How to display 24:00 as 00:00 in tick label?

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-985 Why does the export quality of graph with small size fail to be as good as the one of large size?

FAQ-986 How to remove line between two points on a Line+Symbol plot?

FAQ-991 How to add equations and special characters in Graph?

FAQ-992 How can I use a "real" minus sign to my axis tick labels?

FAQ-994 How to order column or bars in column or bar plot?

FAQ-996 How to connect data points within groups?

FAQ-997 How to change the shape of axis break?

FAQ-999 How to turn off the Common Display controls?

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-1006 Why is it that data points, error bars and text labels lying on the layer frame are not clipped?

FAQ-1007 How do I label data points in a plot with text or numeric values from other columns?

FAQ-1010 How to create an implicit function plot?

FAQ-1015 How to customize Heatmap?

FAQ-1016 How do I do if the font size in the exported graph becomes small?

FAQ-1017 How to recover the deleted labels for a pie chart?

FAQ-1018 How to fix the font size for a Word object inserted into a graph?

FAQ-1019 How to customize the font color for the labels of a Pie/Doughnut chart?

FAQ-1021 How do I make a scatter plot and apply a heat map look based on density of the points?

FAQ-1026 How to create a zoom plot for 2D graph?

FAQ-1032 Density Scatter Plot Validation

FAQ-1033 The end of my line is round. How can I make it to be square?

FAQ-1035 Why there is additional line on my column graph? How can I turn it off?

FAQ-1038 How can I make an "L-shaped" leader line for my data labels?

FAQ-1039 How to plot 3D Bars side by side?

FAQ-1040 How to wrap legend text into multiple lines?

FAQ-1041 Why does the embedded graphs fail to show in my Word file?

FAQ-1044 Can I specify an anchor point which the middle color is mapped to and ticks must pass through?

FAQ-1045 How to quickly browse graph acrossing datasets?

FAQ-1046 How to add connect line for 2D and 3D XYY bars?

FAQ-1047 How to show and customize data points in a box chart?

FAQ-1049 How to plot Stacked Column graph with actual X value position?

FAQ-1051 How to add a boundary to a contour plot?

FAQ-1056 How to customize data label following the display format of axis tick label?

FAQ-1058 My tick labels are chopped by table border. How can I fix it?

FAQ-1060 How to make my Column/Bar plot start from axis?

FAQ-1061 How to add break marker at the break region on the plot?

FAQ-1062 How to make statistical bar start from bottom axis?

FAQ-1063 How to change my slideshow order in OriginPro?

FAQ-1065 How to label each line plot with a legend-type entry?

FAQ-1068 How to insert a graph background image and link to layer scales?

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-1084 Why is the exported 3D vector graph not editable?

FAQ-1088 Why are there duplicated points on my box chart?

FAQ-1108 Why there is always a sole longer dash showing in my dashed line plot?

FAQ-1109 How to create user-defined symbols in Scatter plot?

FAQ-1125 What should I do if the exported EMF file cannot be opened in AI?

FAQ-1129 How to set axis scale to Log based on 1000?

FAQ-1132 How to create a gray legend of box chart?

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)?

FAQ-1140 How to keep image size when copying and pasting it from one layout/graph to another?

FAQ-1141 Copying Origin graph and pasting as image to other application doesn’t work. What should I do?

FAQ-1142 Why does my major axis tick increment not update?

FAQ-1143 How to create colorblind-friendly graphs?

FAQ-1146 Origin always inserts MathType object to graph even though I select AxMath when using Insert Object button. 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-1148 How to keep image size when pasting to Layout of different page sizes?

FAQ-1149 How to Create a Double-Y Line Series Plot?

FAQ-1157 Why do my tick labels become much smaller when exporting to image or video?

FAQ-1158 Why can't I select graph elements such as plot, layer or text objects?

FAQ-1159 What should I do if I cannot use theme or copy paste format?

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

FAQ-1164 When I export graph as SVG or EPS, the objects inserted to the graph become extremely large. What should I do?

FAQ-1167 What should I do if I see a strange color block showed on my 3D graph?

FAQ-1168 How to Align Symbols in Legend?

FAQ-1172 Why short dot rectangle is missing from exported PNG graph?

FAQ-1175 Why the Chinese Y axis title can not be set as bold?

FAQ-1176 Why my exported image is different from the Origin graph window?

FAQ-1179 How to know the data requirement of Origin build-in graph templates?

FAQ-1180 How to change the font/sizes on axis tick labels and axis titles simultaneously?

FAQ-1185 How to show images in tick labels and data labels?

FAQ-1188 How to smooth contour plotted from matrix?

FAQ-1191 How to get graph auto updated when adding or deleting columns?

FAQ-1192 How to Show Year/Quarter/Month for First Tick only to Avoid Duplicate Display?

FAQ-1193 What should I do if the graph object pasted in PPT fail to update after editing?

FAQ-1199 What should I do if I don't want to keep the dark mode color when exporting graphs?

FAQ-1203 Lines that appear hovering over text of graphs after the graphs are embedded into Microsoft Word. How can I fix it?

FAQ-1204 Editable graph failed to be pasted on MS Powerpoint 2019, what Should I do?

FAQ-1208 The tick label text on my 3D graph looks hackly. What should I do to improve it?

FAQ-1209 How to combine data from different graphs into one graph?

FAQ-1212 Why the mean reference line is wrong for interval plot and multi-vari graph?

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Contents

1 坐标轴
2 颜色设置
3 数据标签
4 添加对象对图进行标注
5 图层和图线设置
6 文本对象和图例
7 主题 (Theme) and 模板 (Template)
8 3D 图
9 柱状图/条形图/饼图
10 等高线图
11 曲线和散点
12 多轴/多面板
13 箱线图
14 特殊图形
15 其他
16 图形导出

坐标轴

颜色设置

数据标签

添加对象对图进行标注

图层和图线设置

文本对象和图例

主题 (Theme) and 模板 (Template)

3D 图

柱状图/条形图/饼图

等高线图

曲线和散点

多轴/多面板

箱线图

FAQ-196 如何旋转箱线图？

特殊图形

其他

FAQ-1136 为什么图例会消失/绘图处理缓慢/绘图导出或合并时有很大的白色区域？

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