Origin 2026 Features
Graphing
New Graph Types
JIRA | SUMMARY | DESCRIPTION | DETAILS |
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ORG-31937 | Cause and Effect Diagram | Also known as fishbone or ishikawa diagram -- visualize the possible causes behind a given problem. | Plot: Statistics: Cause and Effect Diagram  |
ORG-31936 | Frequency Chart | Frequency chart with plot types: column, bar, pie, or donut | Plot: Bar, Pie, Area: Frequency Chart
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ORG-31558 | Double X | Multiple Double Y plot types added for different needs. | Plot: Multi-Panel, Multi-Axis
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ORG-31882 | Graphical Summary | Instantly turns your data into a clear, interactive chart so you can spot trends and outliers at a glance | Statistics: Descriptive Statistics: Graphical Summary
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ORG-31110 | Grouped Histogram | Grouped Histogram to Support Multiple Factors | Plot: Categorical: Grouped Histogram
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ORG-32011 | Grouped Pareto Chart | Group option added in both Pareto Chart | Plot: Statistics: Pareto Chart - Binned Data/Raw Data
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ORG-32154 | Grouped Scatter Plot | Plot scatter graph by group, all data can be overlapped in a single layer graph, multi-layer graph, or different graphs. | Plot: Categorical: Grouped Scatter
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ORG-31998 ORG-31999 ORG-32000 | Improved Grouped Column Chart | Plot column/bar graph by group, all data can be overlapped in a single layer graph, multi-layer graph, or different graphs. | Plot: Categorical: Grouped Columns
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ORG-29739 ORG-31086 | Improved Probability Plot |
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Adding a new control group: Graph Arrangement, with control Multiple Data, Multiple Groups, Split Panels by, Split Pages by
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General
JIRA | SUMMARY | DESCRIPTION | DETAILS |
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ORG-31663 | Bypass zoom in/out with mousewheel in Undo stack | When zoom and pan in graph, it always do it multiple times, it need multiple undo to roll back and very annoy | Provide system variable @UDZP to group the zoom and pan as one stack
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ORG-31989 | Save, Load settings in Graph Options | support save and load the settings | In Graph Options dialog top-right corner, add two icon button, one is Save Settings as…, one is Load Settings. |
ORG-32129 | Page.Info should keep original template file path | Project Saving should not modify page info template field | We can use code |
ORG-31877 | CDF plot support Split panels/pages by | Add Split Panels by & Add Split Pages by option in Graph Arrangement branch, under Multiple Groups option. | When Split Panels by is not empty, Origin take the columns as special group columns. Split Panels by always separate layers, the rest will follow Multiple Groups option. When Split Pages by is not empty, Origin take the columns as special group columns. Split Pages by always separate layers, the rest will follow Multiple Groups option. |
ORG-30425 | Cardinal direction support for Windrose Plot Raw | Origin2026 now support wind direction data in cardinal directions, not degrees. | With wind direction data like N E S W NE NW WNW etc. and wind speed, wind rose-raw data now can handle such data structure and make windrose plot. |
ORG-30551 | Select layer dropdown in Reference Lines properties dialog | In reference lines properties dialog (when double-clicked on the line), now there is a layers dropdown selector. | The dropdown selector works just like other axis properties dialog.
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ORG-30794 | Support Number of Plots for Multiple Panels by Label | In plotbylabel xf, Group by option, add Number of Plots | Select Number of Plots will show a edit box Number of Plots under Group by. After this change, Now the plot is renamed the toolbar and Plot menu entry to Multiple Panels… |
ORG-31824 ORG-31890 | More improvement to histogram/box bin | More Number of Bin for Box dot/histogram. Support auto min max only for binning in box/histogram plot |
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ORG-30611 | Arrange user templates in different orders | Add Apply Order to Menu button in Manage Mode of Template Library. | This button is enable when list is ordered by any column(Name, Date, Category, Location). Plot menu User Template/Extended Template tab will be arranged in such order base on checkbox status of extended and user checkbox. |
Label and Annotation
JIRA | SUMMARY | DESCRIPTION | DETAILS |
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ORG-31931 | Precise Control of Graph Table Font Size | Easier to set font real font size for table object in graph. | For table object in graph, change its font size will be the real font size. Resize table, font size information on MT and regular toolbar will reflect the new font size. |
ORG-31985 | Show/hide multiple legend mini toolbars | Toggle legend on/off button when selecting multiple legends or page level |
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ORG-29248 | Legend, Axis Title, Text and Annotation are treated as different types | Easier to edit same type of labels in graph | This change make it easier to edit same type of object. E.g. For graph with multiple layers and therefore multiple legends, in Object Manager, right click one legend and choose Select All of Same Type Only legends in different layers will be selected for further customization. Before Origin 2026, both legend and axis titles will be selected. |
ORG-30851 | Trendline MTB More Improvements |
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ORG-31994 | Support adding Significance Mark for Heatmap plots | provide option to select another label source to decide significance mark | In PD dialog, there is significant mark panel for setting. |
ORG-31591 | External Arrow Distance Annotation | In Mini toolbar of Distance Annotation, add a toggle button(toggle between Inside Arrowheads, Outside Arrowheads) before edit points button. Support Auto Mode to use inside arrowheads when distance annotation with small distance | |
ORG-32445 | MT in Report Graph need to support apply format to page title | Support mini toolbar button to apply format to page title in Report Graph | |
ORG-31957 | Change thickness of Screen Reader cross-hair | Support system variable to change the thickness of the Screen Reader cross-hair | System variable @chth= to set the crosshair line thickness in pixels. The default is 0 (which usually means one pixel as before) |
ORG-31280 | Tooltip for reference line | In the past, no tooltip show for reference line label/value shows on the graph. Origin2026 now support show tooltip for reference line. |
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Graph Customization
JIRA | SUMMARY | DESCRIPTION | DETAILS |
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ORG-30815 | Categorical Legend for Treemap | support categorical legend |
In Origin2026, we support categorical legend for such case |
ORG-30736 | Customize Dash Line style for Axis Grid Line | We can use Custom Dash Line tool for Grid Line, like Plot Details > Line tab for line plot. | There is browser button to open custom dash line dialog for grid lines. We also can set custom dashi line for grid line in graph options dialog. |
ORG-31587 | Improve Tripartite Plot | Template Change Add an extra button Convert on the left of Tripartite button in the graph template. | When user clicks Convert button, open a dialog as below:
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Data Handling
Worksheet
JIRA | SUMMARY | DESCRIPTION | DETAILS |
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ORG-32149 | Flash Fill and Smart Formula | Similar to Flash Fill in Excel and Smart Fill in Google | In new column, if you type text/value in first cell of a new column and press Enter key, Origin will check if pattern is found between it and 1st cell of other column. If so,
It works on shown rows only so user can add filter on some column. Do flash fill for shown rows only. |
ORG-31674 | Sort Multiple Columns Individually | Select multiple columns and sort each column ascending or descending | Each Column Ascending and Each Column Desending Options are under Sort Columns context menu. Note: After searching the relationship between columns will be lost.
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ORG-31554 | Sort Column by Label should support Sort by Categorical | Support sort by categorical when sort column by label | Set a label row as categorical, then select menu Worksheet: Sort Columns by Label to open dialog. Pick the label, click the button to choose Categorical format. Click the Categorical button to move the label to the Sort Criteria table. |
ORG-30132 | Add Data Filter button to the Column Mini Toolbar | New mini toolbar button for adding Data Filter to column(s) |
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ORG-31700 | New “Paste (No Label Detection)” menu | Add a new paste menu not to do smart paste | In Origin 2025b, we improve the paste behavior to check and auto set label when copy data from plaint text. But some user may not like it, so new menu Paste (No Label Detection) is added. Choose this will not do smart paste and all data will be pasted to data area. Note: The menu will show only if number of lines >= 4 for plain text, number of lines >=3 for Excel in clipboard. |
ORG-32187 | Worksheet Mini Toolbar MT for resize to show all | Mini toolbar on worksheet level to resize all columns to show all contents | This button used to be on column level only to resize highlighted columns. It’s added on worksheet level mini toolbar. (left click on edge of worksheet). It will resize column width based on both column label row contents and data area contents. Note: Hidden columns will be ignored.
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ORG-31709 | Show Formulas for Worksheet | Improvement on Show Formulas for Worksheet | Click the top area of worksheet to show mini button and click the Show Formulas button will show cell formula as formula expression only in active sheet now. Also, hot key Ctrl + ` is added for convenience. |
ORG-31649 | Keep formula in data copied from Excel and Google Sheet | Keep cell formula from Excel and google sheet when pasting data into Origin |
Note: Since Excel localizes function name in German, this feature is not available in the German version. |
ORG-32081 | Support A:A, $A:$A, kinds of Excel notation in formula | This will make more excel formula work without need to edit formula | One difference between Excal and Origin formuls is that in Excel, you would need to use A:A to refer to column A, while in Origin, A is used to refer to column A. Formula with A:A, e.g. =average(A:A), etc. would not be recognized in Origin In Origin 2026, it will be recognized and work so user doesn’t need to edit the formula. |
ORG-31870 | Using similar notation as Excel for bad formula | Use #REF!, #NAME?, #NUM!, #ERROR! for bad cell formulas | When Ctrl+E to highlight formula cells, #REF!, #NAME?, #NUM!, #ERROR! will show for bad formula cells #REF! → No reference cell, column #NAME? → Function name or named range not exist. Could be typo in function name, etc. #NUM! → not a number #VALUE? #ERROR! → Other errors e.g. wrong number of arguments,mismatched ( and ), wrong operator, not supported calculation, etc. e.g. type =A1 A2 not support. |
ORG-31756 | Edit Bad Cell Formulas | Insert symbol before = of bad formula or replace it with number or text | This tool is used to operate on bad cell formulas which shows missing value in worksheet. User can press Ctrl + E to turn on Highlight Formula/Linked Cells to see formula with color, and press Ctrl+` to see the formula expression. User can also choose Edit: Edit Bad Cell Formula… to add string before formula cell to later manually fix the error. Or replace bad formula cells with some value or text. |
ORG-31571 | Replace cell formula with its result | A new mini toolbar button is added to replace cell formula with its result | Click this new button will convert the cell formula and cell link to it’s result. It’s something like remove links. |
ORG-31718 | Clear worksheet more options | Keep Cell Formula/Link checkbox in Clear Worksheet dialog | Choose Worksheet: Clear Worksheet menu and check the Keep Cell Formulas and Links checkbox to only remove data but keep formulas and links Then user can fill new data to get updated calculation
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ORG-32064 | Improve Dynamic Merged Cells | Mini toolbar for dynamic merge and single click to edit for all cells | Origin supported dynamic merge of adjacent cells if the value/text are the same. But it’s kind of hidden. User would need to go to Worksheet Properties or Format Cells dialog to turn it on. Also when clicking on a merged cell and edit would change the clicked cell only so not easy to edit all cells. The following improvements are made:
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