Sigmaplot® 8.0 User's Guide
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SigmaPlot ® 8.0 User’s Guide For more information about SPSS® Science software products, please visit our WWW site at http://www.spss.com or contact SPSS Science Marketing Department SPSS Inc. 233 South Wacker Drive, 11th Floor Chicago, IL 60606-6307 Tel: (312) 651-3000 Fax: (312) 651-3668 SPSS and SigmaPlot are registered trademarks and the other product names are the trademarks of SPSS Inc. for its proprietary computer software. No material describing such software may be produced or distributed without the written permission of the owners of the trademark and license rights in the software and the copyrights in the published materials. The SOFTWARE and documentation are provided with RESTRICTED RIGHTS. Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subdivision (c)(1)(ii) of The Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at 52.227-7013. 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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 05 04 03 02 01 00 ISBN 1-56827-232-4 Contents Introduction ................................................................................ 9 New Features in SigmaPlot 8.0 .................................................................................. 10 Installing SigmaPlot ................................................................................................... 12 Using SigmaPlot in Windows ..................................................................................... 14 Using Toolbars ........................................................................................................... 15 Setting Program Options ............................................................................................ 18 Anatomy of SigmaPlot Graphs ................................................................................... 22 SigmaPlot Help .......................................................................................................... 32 Getting Technical Support .......................................................................................... 32 Using This Manual ..................................................................................................... 33 Contacting SPSS Inc. ................................................................................................. 33 References ................................................................................................................. 34 Notebook Basics .......................................................................... 37 SigmaPlot Notebook Structure ................................................................................... 37 Managing Notebook Sections .................................................................................... 40 Creating New Notebook Files and Items .................................................................... 41 Renaming Notebook Files and Items .......................................................................... 43 Opening Notebook Files and Items ........................................................................ 44 Copying, Pasting and Removing Notebook Items ...................................................... 45 Saving Your Work ..................................................................................................... 46 Exporting Notebooks and Notebook Items ................................................................. 46 Printing Notebook Items ............................................................................................ 49 Worksheet Basics ........................................................................ 53 Setting Worksheet Display Options ............................................................................ 54 Moving Around the Worksheet ................................................................................... 55 Entering Data into a SigmaPlot Worksheet ................................................................. 57 Importing Files from Other Applications .................................................................... 58 Exporting Worksheet Data .......................................................................................... 62 Descriptive Statistics for Worksheets ........................................................................ 63 Displaying Worksheet Data ........................................................................................ 66 Selecting a Block of Data ............................................................................................ 75 Sorting Data ............................................................................................................... 77 Cutting, Copying, Pasting, Moving, and Deleting Data ............................................... 78 Inserting Blocks of Cells, Columns, and Rows of Data ............................................... 78 Deleting Blocks of Cells, Columns, and Rows of Data ................................................ 80 iii Contents Switching Rows to Columns .......................................................................................81 Removing Outliers and Other Data ..............................................................................81 Entering and Promoting Column and Row Titles ........................................................85 Using Excel Workbooks in SigmaPlot .........................................................................88 Graph Page Basics ...................................................................... 95 Setting Page Options ..................................................................................................96 Working with Page Objects .........................................................................................97 Adding Another Graph to a Page ...............................................................................102 Zooming In and Out ..................................................................................................103 Using Graph Pages as Templates .............................................................................105 Cutting, Copying and Pasting Graphs and other Page Objects ..................................111 Using OLE to Paste, Link, and Embed Objects ..........................................................112 Dragging and Dropping Graphs ................................................................................122 Hiding and Deleting Objects from the Page ..............................................................123 Drawing Objects on the Page ....................................................................................125 Modifying Object Colors and Lines ...........................................................................127 Moving and Sizing Graphs and Objects ....................................................................131 Moving Objects to the Front or Back .........................................................................134 Grouping and Ungrouping Objects ...........................................................................135 Aligning Page Objects ...............................................................................................135 Working with Grids and Rulers .................................................................................136 Arranging Graphs .....................................................................................................137 Working with Text on the Page .................................................................................143 Working with Automatic Legends .............................................................................148 Changing Graph Page Format ...................................................................................154 Using Custom Colors ................................................................................................158 Creating and Modifying Graphs ......................................................163 Setting Graph Defaults ..............................................................................................164 SigmaPlot Graph Types ............................................................................................165 SigmaPlot Graph Style .............................................................................................167 Creating Graphs ........................................................................................................177 Using Templates, Layouts, and the Graph Style Gallery ............................................182 Creating Graphs Using the Graph Style Gallery .........................................................182 Creating and Modifying Embedded