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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Anti-Spam Code: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Craters[/i] [br]Origin Version: 7.5 SR5 Operating System: XP Pro Hi, Gang -- I have a scatter plot with four datasets, to which I just tried adding a fifth dataset and the error bars to go with it. I have the error values in a separate column of my worksheet, which I've designated as the error values. Everything looks very good -- the error bars are there, just like they're supposed to be, centered on each data point of the fifth dataset, EXCEPT that the vertical "stem" leading to the lower error bar of each point starts well below the bottom of the data symbol, so it doesn't give the appearance of being overlapped by the symbol itself as it should be (and indeed IS for the upper error bars -- tey look great). Looks pretty tacky. This is a semilog plot, by the way, with a Y linear axis. When I first plotted this dataset, it automatically went to squares as the symbol type, which I changed to point-up triangles. If I switch them back to squares, it seems that the error bars fit pretty well -- that is, there isn't a gap between the bottom of the symbol and the lower, vertical stem any more. With the triangles as the symbol type (which the figure really needs to stay consistent with the rest of the paper it'll be part of), I've tried the "Through Symbol" option in the Error Bar tab of the Plot Details dialog. That works, but it, too, looks pretty lousy, with a line running over each (white-filled) data point. In looking back at some possibly related problems treated in the forum, I messed with the Speed Mode settings of the Size/Speed tab, but no joy there. The line thickness doesn't do anything (I know, but I was just trying everything I could think of), but making the symbols bigger was interesting: the gap between the bottom of the symbol to the start of the lower vertical stem pretty much stays constant regardless of the symbol size. It's as if there were a "no draw" zone along the bottom of the symbol, if that makes any sense. As bigger symbols (i.e., triangles) are drawn, the stem seems to get pushed away and shortened, until only the horizontal, lower error bar is left stemless. When I try point-down triangles, the "excluded zone" is still on the base side of the triangle, which is now, of course, on the top side of the symbol, cutting off the top vertical stem. Gack. Is there any way to get the error bars to look right after changing the symbols? Sure would be nice... Thanks for your time!! Mark [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.