Advantages over XY plotting tools in spreadsheet

- XY plotting tools (components) in spreadsheet softwares are generally rich in features and convenient for creating XY chart from data processed in a spreadsheet. However, they are not very suitable for plotting the output of numerical simulation programs and data retrieved from dataloggers. To plot such data using spreadsheet, cells for data series have to be selected at each time as well as loading operations, unless you learn and create macros.
- Because the properties of a graph can also be set though editing the graph configuration file (*.fig), you can create many similar graphs easily, if the structure of data files are the same and only the datafile names are different.