8.7 Inserting Axis Related Objects

Insert-Axis-Related-Objects

You can always open Axis dialog to add objects on axes, such as straight lines, reference lines, etc. This page will show you how to add these axis related objects quickly and intuitively.

To add a vertical/horizontal straight line

Select Insert: Straight Line... to open the Striaght Line: addline dialog.

You can insert a vertical or horizontal straight line with its label at specified position of X or Y axis.

You can expand Line Format brach to customize the line style; And decide the display format and the postion of the label.

If Selectable and Moverable are checked, the line can be drag and drop to other places of the axis and the label will automatically updated.

To add reference lines

Select Insert: Reference Line... to open the Insert Reference Lines dialog:

This dialog can also be opened by clicking on the axis to press the Add Reference Line button:

Select Axis

You can choose a axis to add the reference lines onto.

Enter position values

You can enter multiple space-seperated values into the At X= or At Y = box to add multiple reference lines.

And, clicking the button to expand the statistic string list to enter a statistic value.

Open detailed Reference Lines dialog

Clicking More... button will open the Reference Lines dialog to let you do further customization for the reference lines you added.

Note: Once you added a reference line you can click on it to use the Mini toolbar buttons to do further customization.