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13.2.3 Adding a Legend

 

With several lines of data, it is often necessary to distinguish what each set represents. The use of a legend will provide this information. To display legends:

  1. Select General... from the graph window Options menu. NExS displays the General Options dialog box.

  2. Click on the selection button labeled Legend.

  3. Click OK to confirm your choice and dismiss the dialog box. NExS redraws the graph and displays a legend to the right of the data area.
Now you can label the data sets in the legend with meaningful text strings.

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Figure 13.5: Data Set 1 Dialog Box

To label the items in a legend:

  1. Select General from the graph window Edit menu. NExS displays the Graph Options dialog box as shown in Figure 12.6.

  2. Click on the Legend toggle button to turn on legend drawing. Click OK to dismiss the Graph Options dialog.

  3. Select Data Sets from the graph window Edit menu. NExS displays a dialog box for Data Set 1 as shown in Figure 13.5.

  4. In the Legend entry box, enter Data 1.

  5. Click Data Set slider to display a dialog box for Data Set 2.

  6. In the Legend entry box, enter Data 2.

  7. Click OK to confirm your choices and dismiss the dialog box. NExS redraws the graph with a legend and legend text labels as shown in Figure 2-6.

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Figure 13.6: Multiline Graph 2


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NExS User's Guide, Version 1.4.5
Grey Trout Software
11 April 1999