The Legend
A legend will be generated whenever plots are overlayed. To add a legend to a single plot, right click on the plot and select Show Legend, or select Show Legend from the Annotation panel of the Graph Definition window. To remove a legend, click on it to select it and press Delete or unselect it from the Graph Definition window.
You can change the front/back Ordering of your plots by clicking on a sample line in the Legend and dragging it up or down in the legend order.
You can change the Color of the dot plot or histogram by left-clicking on a sample's color box in the legend. You will presented with a color palate from which you can choose your color of choice.
To edit the line characteristics of a histogram, right-click on the color box to see a popup menu for line weight and style, as well as whether the histogram should be filled, tinted or plain.
The Legend and Batching
For control/test sample comparison during a batch analysis, it is often useful to lock a control sample so that it is displayed with successive iterations of test samples. Lock the control by right clicking on sample in the legend and selecting Set Control On (you will see the text for the control become italicized, shown at right). For more on batching and iteration, click here.
Customizing and Adding Additional Legend Information
This is done through the Legend Properties dialogue. Obtain the Legend Properties dialogue by:
- Right clicking on the legend and selecting Properties, or
- Double clicking on the legend, or,
- Selecting the legend, then selecting Properties from the Object menu.
Legend
(right-clicking on color box)
Legend
(left-clicking on color box)
From this dialog you can:
- Insert additional Columns of Keyword Values and/or Statistics (from the Insert drop-down menu or Statistics button). Once selected the Columns to be displayed will show in the Columns to Show in Legend pane on the right-side of the dialog. You can remove these columns by selecting them in the pane and clicking delete.
- Customize the font type, color size and style.
- Add color to the lines or background of the cells of the legend.
- To see the changes, click Apply or OK. To remember these settings in the future, click the Save button.
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