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Clianthus
New Zealand
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 Posted - 11/08/2012 : 3:23:08 PM
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Origin Ver. and Service Release (Select Help-->About Origin):8.5.0 SR1
Operating System: Windows 2007
Hi,
I'm a new user to Origin and I'm hoping someone out there can help. I am plotting data for various genus of fungi/insects. I have entered the names into the worksheet and specified the column as an x axis text. My problem is that I can either italicise everything on the x axis, or have it not italicised when I would actually want both e.g. Penicillin spp. The only work around I have come up with is to delete all the x axis labels and insert them as individual text boxes which seems a bit extreme.
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Kathy_Wang
China
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Posted - 11/08/2012 : 7:46:32 PM
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Hi,
You could change the cell formats for the texts to Rich Text in the worksheet, and then you could make part of the texts italic.
To set the cell formats, highlight the cells, right click and choose "Format Cells" in the context menu.
Once the worksheet data format is changed, the tick labels which are created from worksheet data will also change.
Kathy
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Clianthus
New Zealand
8 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2012 : 8:23:59 PM
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Thanks Kathy! That works great!  |
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Clianthus
New Zealand
8 Posts |
Posted - 11/12/2012 : 3:28:52 PM
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Hello again!
I'm now having some trouble with graphs combining both genus level names and full species names. The full species names will not come out in italics even though they are in italics the workbook. Ive tried selecting all cells in the workbook and making them rich text, but it still wont work. Any ideas on how to fix this?
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Kathy_Wang
China
159 Posts |
Posted - 11/12/2012 : 7:57:44 PM
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Hi,
I think the problem is that you didn't double click into the cells to edit the texts, as I actually cannot reproduce the problem, if I made the texts in worksheet cells italic by double clicking into the cells.
In addition, you can also use the escape sequences to control the text format for the axis tick label(i.e. the text format in worksheet will not change), in this case the cell format should NOT be rich text.
Kathy
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Edited by - Kathy_Wang on 11/12/2012 8:02:46 PM |
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Clianthus
New Zealand
8 Posts |
Posted - 11/13/2012 : 6:08:43 PM
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Thank you! For some odd reason I cant choose italics when I've double clicked into a cell (that option becomes unavailable), BUT the escape sequence works perfectly! Thanks!  |
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snowli
USA
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Posted - 11/29/2012 : 12:53:46 PM
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Origin's worksheet cells has two mode. One is whole cell mode, which is when uou single click a cell.
The other is in-place edit mode.
So though you have set the data cells to be Rich Text, I guess you selected multiple cells and then set them to be Italic. Then the whole cells are set to be Italic. Then if you later go to inplace edit mode, the Italic button is grayed out.
To verify it, you can click on a cell (Don't double click to go to inplace edit mode).
Check if the Italic button on Format toolbar is pressed down.
If so, click the Italic button to release it.
Then double click the cell to go to inplace edit mode. you should see Italic button is activated now.
Thanks, Snow
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Originally posted by Clianthus
Thank you! For some odd reason I cant choose italics when I've double clicked into a cell (that option becomes unavailable), BUT the escape sequence works perfectly! Thanks!
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Edited by - snowli on 11/29/2012 12:57:40 PM |
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X axis italics