Windows software for making nice graphs?

Microsoft Excel.

@erichw1504 srsly?

If you know how to use it, you could probably make something very similar, if not exactly like the graph you provided as an example.

Fair enough =) I think whenever I’ve tried to go down that route, I end up giving up b/c it’s just too complex to figure out how to get it to NOT do what it wants to do =)

Yes, it can be tricky.

Excel is your best bet…just play. Once you get the hang of it, it’s quite simple.

Excel is terrible for serious graphing (i.e. I would never use excel for a major presentation or publication). For quick graphs or day-to-day use it is fine, but sophisticated graphs with multiple output styles do not exist in Excel (I doubt graphing is Microsoft’s focus with Excel anyway. Excel is mainly a spreadsheet program.)

Currently, I use GraphPad Prism (which is available for both Macs and PCs). I’ve used Deltagraph in the past, and I also know a lot of people that use SigmaPlot. Indeed, (as a marketing tool), deltagraph compared their product to Excel to show how limited are the graphing options and the output styles in Excel.

If you’d like to get into the highly versatile programs you could try MathLAB or Mathematica. Takes a while to get to know, but they’re really powerful and also produce nice 3d graphs (if you’d ever like to use them).

If you need super serious graphing i’d reccomend “R”. It’s freeware, and it will graph anything you want and more, but the learning curve is quite steep (it’s basically a programming language).

http://images.google.com/images?hl=sv&source=hp&q=R+graph&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=bNkWS53SN8fA-QbdgY3kBg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCYQsAQwAw

http://www.r-project.org/

It’s 2022! Go with Excel. It can do anything.