Thanks in advance,

In an effort to reproduce your problem I created some data in an Excel workbook inside of Origin. The basic setup is as follows:

I then went to Plot: Line+Symbol which brought up the 'Select Data For Plotting' interface. I selected col A by highlighting it with my mouse and then clicked on the 'X' button on 'Select Data For Plotting'. Similarly, I then selected col B and clicked the 'Y' button. The data plotted out correctly, but I did not see any legend present. To get the legend to come up, I then made the graph active by clicking on it. I then right-clicked inside the axes and selected New Legend. The legend that came up was fine.� It showed the symbol for a Line + Symbol plot and the word "TWO" next to it (it was easily readible).�I failed to see any "small lines or blocks that are too small to read."

It would be a good idea if you expanded on your problem. Perhaps you could email me at the address provided below for further assistance?� It would be helpful if in the email you would provide a step-by-step explanation of how you arrive at the problem so that I can try and reproduce it.� In the explanation you should also include any system information that you can gather (such things as your operating system (windows 95 or NT), your default printer driver, you video card and video driver, and the font that you are using in the legend).� Perhaps the printer driver you are using can not handle such a font and is substituting another one?.� Once you have provided this
information it should be easier to determine the cause of your problem.

Please include your serial number with your correspondence.

Sincerely,

Ryan Toomey

Technical Support engineer

[This message has been edited by Ryan Toomey (edited 08-19-98).]

[This message has been edited by Ryan Toomey (edited 08-19-98).]

Ryan,
This works fine if you open your data as an Excel workbook.
But if you if you choose to open from Excel as an Origin worksheet as a legend
the titles from the default column names assigned A, B, ... are taken.
What can you do to change the titles to the first row? I could not figure out.