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Customizing TRIOS Properties

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Customizing the Application Settings
Accessing Properties
Customizing the TRIOS Layout

The appearance of many of the components in TRIOS can be customized. You can customize settings that apply to the entire program, or select properties that apply to individual components within the application.

  1. NOTE: The TRIOS software Application options are global settings applicable to the computer where the program is installed. Therefore, if you open more than one copy of the program, these settings are shared.

For an overview of document properties and how they work, refer to Understanding Document Properties.

Customizing the Application Settings

To select the application options, follow these steps:

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Accessing and Customizing Properties

Individual components within TRIOS are customized through the Properties panel.

To access this panel:

Follow the tips below when using a Properties panel:

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Saving and Restoring Property Settings

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To Customize the Experimental Setup Properties

Customize the color scheme of the bars displayed in the Experiment panel as follows:

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Saving and Restoring Property Settings

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To Customize the Spreadsheet Properties

General Spreadsheet

The spreadsheet properties allow you to customize the general properties (such as font and color) associated with the spreadsheet. Follow these steps to customize the general spreadsheet properties:

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    Spreadsheet Contents

    The spreadsheet content properties allow you to customize the selected variable, units, label, numerical format, and precision. (These settings are also available using the spreadsheet menu.) Follow these steps to customize the spreadsheet content properties:

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    To Customize the Graph Properties

    General Graph

    The graph properties allow you to customize the general graph settings, such as color, plot line, legend display, y-axes layout. Many of these common functions are also available through the Graph and Curves tabs. Follow these steps to customize the general graph properties:

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    Axis – X1, Y1, Y2, Y3, and Y4

    The axis properties allow you to customize the axis settings such as variable selection, scaling, tick mark, and color preferences. Follow these steps to customize the axis properties:

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    Graph Legend

    Enable the legend by selecting Format tab > and selecting the Legendoption from the Show toolbar.

    To customize the legend, select Legend from the Format tab, and then make your customizations using the Legend menu.

    Additionally, click on the Legend and then right-click and select Properties from the pop-up menu. Then select Legend from the drop-down menu. The Legend properties allow you to customize display settings such as image contents and border preferences.

    Click on the desired property to display either an arrow or button . Then choose your option from the drop-down list or window.

    See Adding Objects to a Graph for more information regarding customizing the Legend.

     

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    Graph Title

    Enable the graph title by selecting Format tab and then clicking Title from the Show toolbar. Once the title is enabled, use the Format tab to customize the display settings, such as font and color.

    Use the border options in the Properties panel to set up various border effects around the title. Border line style, color, and shadow effects may all be modified. Shadow transparency uses the shadow color specified (0 = fully transparent, 100 = no transparency).

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    Graph Objects

    After you have created a graph object (see Adding Objects to a Graph for instructions), you can alter the shape fill and shape outline properties of that object from the Shape toolbar in the Edit tab. Transparency saturation using the fill color specified (0 = fully transparent, 100 = no transparency) can be altered from the Properties panel.

    Follow these steps to access the Properties panel:

    For information on customizing annotations, see Adding Objects to a Graph.

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    Saving and Restoring Property Settings

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    Units

    To change the default units for the whole program, see Setting TRIOS Options.

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    Saving and Restoring Property Settings

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    Customizing the TRIOS Layout

    In addition to being able to customize the properties of various components in TRIOS, you can also set up the workspace as desired.

    For information on changing the workspace, see Customizing the TRIOS Panel Layout.

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