Origin 2017 Ease of Use

• Plot menu is reorganized with large menu icons to better locate plot types.
• More plot types and variations are added.
• Mouse over each plot group to see more plot types.

Note: If you prefer the old menu, go to Origin exe folder. Rename PlotPopup folder. Restart Origin. The Plot menu will go back to the old way.

In the past, the table row width/height is minimize to wrap the text in it. There is no way to adjust the offset.

In the past, in Theme Organizer, user can only apply graph theme to Current Graph, Graphs in Folder and Graphs in Project. More options are added for user to apply theme to subfolders, embedded graphs, or specified graphs only.

Add an option Paste Format (Advanced)... in both Edit menu and context menu of graph to allow user open Apply Format dialog.

Click color blocks in Custom color to open Color dialog, then easily enter HEX code to set custom color.

Add Unformatted Text option in Edit - Paste Special dialog to allow user paste plain text when copy text from other applications like office.

For multi-layer graph, user can open axis dialog and edit different layer's axis. See the layer dropodwn list on the upp-left corner of the axis dialog.

In the past, user has to close the dialog and open the correct layer's axis dialog.

In the Graph window, mousing over the data plots to see the data information of each plot

System Variable : @PT to enable plot tooltip,

0 – disable plot tooltip

1 – enable 2d plot tooltip only

2 – enable 3d plot tooltip only

3 – enable both 2d and 3d plot

For J and G Origin, choose Help: Change Language. Check Use English in Analysis Output. Then if you share your opj with English users, result sheets are displayed in English

If you click 1 Iteration multiple times, you can click < and > buttons multiple times to see parameter value changes.

Allows the user to quickly jump back and forth between two windows in a project,

This new feature can be access via Window → Return to Last Window or hot key Ctrl+Alt+Z.

In Statistics Gadget, add Sum checkbox in the Show on Center-Top of ROI Box tab in case Sum output needed.

Inside Before Formula script, users are able to load if else, loop, etc. control flow syntax by simply right click and chose Conditional/Loop, that means users don't need to figure out what Origin C or LabTalk syntax are. This feature is also available in Fitting Function Builder, Worksheet Query, Function Plot dialog and Batch Processing before each process, after process etc.

Origin Central dialog opens unpon launching Origin 2017 (F11)

• Open section provides a lot of graph and analysis samples. Picking it will only open the corresponding folder with instruction. User can put their data into to see how graph and analysis updates.
• Open section also provides ways to open new book or matrix.
• Open Existing Files to open opj, ogw, otw, ogg files. 
• Resources to see Apps. User can click the icon to go to file exchange page to download Apps. Learning Center will provide tutorials and videos, etc.

Choose Help : Origin Central from the main menu or Press F11 to open the dialog. 

• Origin Folder – Origin central files, etc.
• User Files folder
• Autosave folder – if Origin is crashed, find the autosaved opj
• Program folder — installation folder

In Fitting Function Organizer dialog (F9), add a checkbox "Allow Initializing Fixed Parameters" (default unchecked) above Parameter Initialization editbox; in Fitting Function Builder dialog (F8), add a same checkbox on Parameter Initialization Code page, under "Always run Initialization Code before Fitting". This checkbox is designed to allow initialization code to modify the fixed value. When it is on, initialization code can read/write the values for fixed parameters.