Multi-Sheet Data Management Workbook

OriginLab Corp. (Northampton, MA) has announced the release of Origin 8 analysis and graphing software for Windows. A completely new, multi-sheet workbook forms the centerpiece of the workspace and allows users to organize and manage data, reports, graphs, and images. Reports can be created using worksheet customization that include rich text cell formatting and cell borders. Sheets can be moved, added, inserted or deleted. Graphs and images can be contained within cells. Analysis results can be automatically placed into a worksheet within the raw data's workbook. In this way, parameter values, statistics and related analysis graphs are a click away when looking at original data. Results of previous operations may be updated if the source data or analysis parameters are changed. To take advantage of both result consolidation and recalculation, users can set up an analysis operation as desired, with customized dialog settings, then save the workbook or even an entire Origin project as a template. Later, future analysis of the same type of data may be quickly performed by simply replacing the original data.