28.4 Mini ToolbarMini-Toolbar
By default, Mini Toolbars will appear when you select an object or click in certain key areas inside the page.
To hide the Mini Toolbars, you can uncheck the View:Mini Toolbars menu.
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Plots Type
For the Group plot, you can custom the plots properties togethter by the buttons under the Group tab.
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Ungroup
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Also, you can custom one plot properties by the buttons under the Single tab.
Scatter Plot
Single Data Point
Line Plot
Column Plot
Single column
Area Plot
Box Plot
Data Type for Box Plot:
Interval Plot:
Histogram
Pie Plot
2D & 3D Vector Plot
Contour & Heatmap
Contour:
Heatmap:
Heatmap with Split Tiles
Error Bar
2D Error Bar:
3D Error Bar:
3D Scatter Plot
Single Data Point
3D Bar Plot
XYY 3D Bar Plot
One plot in the graph:
Single Bar
Multiple plots in the graph:
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3D Ribbon & 3D Wall
One plot in the 3D Ribbon & Wall graph:
Multiple plots in 3D Ribbon graph:
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Multiple plots in 3D Wall graph:
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3D Surface
Axis
Axis
Axis Tick Labels
Axis Title
Axis Break
Reference Lines
Move the cursor to the reference Lines/ the pattern filled between reference Lines, and then click on it. The mini toolbar below will appear:
Reference Lines
The pattern filled between reference Lines
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Fill Color
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Transparency
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Show Line for Begin
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Show Line for End
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Front (data)
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Open Properties Dialog
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Data Label
Graph Layer
Click the space area within the layer frame to pop up the mini toolbar for graph layer:
2D Layer
When multiple layers are selected:
3D Layer
Graph Page
Move the cursor to the page edge, click the edge or gray area outside the graph page when the cursor turns to . The mini toolbar below will appear:
2D
3D
Layout Page
Move the cursor to the page edge, click the edge or gray area outside the page when the cursor turns to . The mini toolbar below will appear:
Object
Text Object
Including: Text, Annotation
Graph Page/ Layer Title
Legend
Legend Symbol
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Larger Symbol Width
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Smaller Symbol Width
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Increase Scatter Symbol Size
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Decrease Scatter Symbol Size
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Increase Line Thickness
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Decrease Line Thickness
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Larger Pattern Block Width
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Smaller Pattern Block Width
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Larger Pattern Block Height
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Smaller Pattern Block Height
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Open Properties Dialog
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Color Scale
Bubble Scale
Draw Object
Line/ Arrow / Curve Arrow / Angle Annotation
Other Draw Object
Including: Polyline, Curve, Freehand Draw, Rectangle, Circle, Polygon and Region object.
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Line/ Border Color
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Line Thickness
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Increase Line Thickness
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Decrease Line Thickness
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Fill Color
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Transparency
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Edit Points
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Front
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Back
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Forward
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Backward
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Back (data)
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Rotate Clockwise
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Rotate Counterclockwise
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Open Properties Dialog
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Asterisk Bracket
Asterisk brackets added by the Add Object to Graph toolbar, can be edited using the Mini toolbar buttons.
Click on the bracket, the Mini toolbar below will show:
Multiple Objects
When select multiple Text or Draw objects, you can use this Mini Toolbar to these objects. If the selected objects are the same type, they can be changed the setting in sync by Mini Toolbar.
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Ungroup
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Group
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Select Text and Draw objects
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Select two Text objects
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Select three or more Text objects
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Select two Draw objects (lines)
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Select three or more Draw objects (lines)
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Select two Draw objects
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Select three or more Draw objects
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Besides the basic buttons for Text Object or Draw Object, there are two specific buttons:
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Left Alignment
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Right Alignment
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Top Alignment
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Bottom Alignment
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Horizontal Alignment
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Vertical Alignment
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Uniform Width (rectangles, ellipses, and UIM objects)
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Uniform Height (rectangles, ellipses, and UIM objects)
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Distribute Horizontally
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Distribute Vertically
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Group
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Ungroup
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Front
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Back
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Forward
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Backward
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Back (data)
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Hide Selected Object
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Align the selected objects.
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Swap the position of selected objects. Available only when two objects are selected.
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XY Scaler
Axis Scrollbar
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Zoom In Axis Range
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Zoom Out Axis Range
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Zoom In Scroll Range
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Zoom Out Scroll Range
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Reset
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Open Properties Dialog
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Data selector/ Regional Data Selector
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Set Display Range
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Remove Selector
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Copy Data for All Selectors
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Copy Data
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Delete Data
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Analysis Marker
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Marker Size
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Table
Selection Region to Zoom
When the cursor is on Pointer mode , select a rectangle region (red border) inside a graph layer, then this Mini Toolbar will show.
WorkSheet
Worksheet
Go to the last column in current worksheet, move the cursor to the edge of the worksheet, click the gray area when the cursor turns to . The mini toolbar below will appear:
Single Column
Click the column header to select the column. The mini toolbar below will appear:
Text
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Text & Numeric / Numeric
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Date
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Time
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Color
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Multiple Columns
Press the left key of mouse to select the first column and drag-and-drop to select multiple columns. The mini toolbar below will appear:
Single Row
Click the row header to select the row. The mini toolbar below will appear:
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Hide
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Unhide Row
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Mask/ Unmask Data
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Delete
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Freeze the selected row
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Unfreeze panes
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Move to Long Name
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Move to Units
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Move to Comment
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Move to User Defined Label
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Insert
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Delete all data rows before the selected row.
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Move selected row up
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Move selected row down
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Available when a row in result sheet (DescStatsQuantities) of Statistics on Whole Sheet is selected. Click this button to create a box chart from the source data column of the selected row.
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Available when a row in result sheet (DescStatsQuantities) of Statistics on Whole Sheet is selected. Click this button to create histogram from the source data column of the selected row.
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Available when a row in result sheet (DescStatsQuantities) of Statistics on Whole Sheet is selected. Click this button to create a P-P plot from the source data column of the selected row.
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Multiple Rows
Press the left key of mouse to select the first row and drag-and-drop down to select multiple rows. The mini toolbar below will appear:
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Hide
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Unhide Row
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Mask/ Unmask Data
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Delete
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Freeze the selected row
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Unfreeze panes
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Insert
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Delete all data rows before the selected row.
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Move selected rows up
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Move selected rows down
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Available when rows in result sheet (DescStatsQuantities) of Statistics on Whole Sheet are selected. Click this button to create box chart from the source data columns of the selected rows.
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Available when rows in result sheet (DescStatsQuantities) of Statistics on Whole Sheet are selected. Click this button to create histogram from the source data columns of the selected rows.
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Single Cell
Click on the single cell with value. The mini toolbar below will appear:
Cell contains data
Cell contains image
Cell in Color Column
Multiple Cells /Range
Highlight multiple cells in a column:
Highlight multiple cells in mutiple columns:
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Mask/ Unmask Data
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Copy for Plotting
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Extend Selection to last row with data
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Clear rows before selected cell. Available when the selected cell is not in the first row.
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Freeze Panes
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Unfreeze panes
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Select from sub-menu to clear formats (bold, fill color, etc.), contents, inserted notes, or all above in the worksheet.
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Label Row
Click the row header of the label row. The mini toolbar below will appear:
When label row = Long Name is selected, this toolbar is shown:
Worksheet inserted in Layout
Matrix
Click on the left-top corner of the matrix to select the whole matrix object. The mini toolbar below will appear:
Image Page
Move the cursor to the page edge, click the edge or gray area outside the image page when the cursor turns to . The mini toolbar below will appear:
Single frame Image
Video
Multi-frame stacked Image
Data Highlighter
When open Data Highlighter, this Mini Toolbar will show in the right-top conner of the Graph window or Workbook window.
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Create Subset Sheet
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Create Categories
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Mask/Unmask Highlight Points
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Mask/Unmask Dimmed Points
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Delete Points
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Open Properties Dialog
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Project Explorer
Click the folders name in the Project Explorer to pop up this mini toolbar:
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Folder Notes
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Duplicate Folder
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Open Folder Properties Dialog
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Buttons that Increment
Some Mini Toolbar buttons increase or decrease some property by some increment each time you click the button (e.g. font size of text). Control incrementing using the following LabTalk system variables:
You can check the increment value of a particular button by hovering on it. The Status Bar reports the current increment and the LabTalk system variable that you can modify to change the increment.
For information on changing the value of a LabTalk system variable see FAQ-708 How do I permanently change the value of a system variable?.
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