The Graph Slicer, introduced in Origin 2025, enables users to apply filtering conditions directly to graphs for more dynamic data exploration. However, in the initial release, this feature was not available for browser graph types—a useful format for inspecting datasets. This limitation has been addressed, and support for browser graphs will be included in the upcoming Origin 2025b release.
There are two kinds of browser graphs in Origin. One is Multi-Column Browser graph for doing inspections of columns and the other is Worksheet Switcher browser graph for inspecting different worksheets. The Graph Slicer is supports both.
Multi-Column Browser Graph + Slicer
The old Plot -> Browser menu has been renamed to Plot -> Multi-Column Browser to make it more obvious. The Data Filter toolbar button is enabled for browser graph and so is the Slicer button on the page level mini toolbar.
The browser panel will show on left side of graph and newly added slicer on the right side. You can pick column(s) to inspect on the left side and change filtering condition on the right side to do the following:
- Inspect different data under same filtering condition
- Compare same data with different filtering conditions
Origin 2025b also supports extracting sliced data to a new workbook for future analysis or graphing. Just right click on the plot and choose Create Sliced Copy as New Book context menu. The new workbook will be created with the filtering condition in a user-defined column label row.
Most browser graph plots data as line plots. The following video shows as example of changing plot type and X data used in browser graph to better inspect data.
Note: You don’t have to directly plot a browser graph from the Plot menu. You can plot a regular line and scatter graph first. Then click on edge of graph to show the page level Mini toolbar. Click the Column Switching Browser Graph button to change it into a browser graph.
Then click the down arrow on the left panel to add other columns on the left panel.
You can also add the Slicer to a regular graph first and then turn on the Column Switching Browser. The Slicer will show on the left and the browser on the right in this case.
Sheet Switching Browser Graph + Slicer
When working with multiple sheets that share a similar data structure, plotting data from each sheet individually can quickly clutter your workspace. This is especially true if you’re applying the same filter conditions across all of them. Instead of creating a separate graph for each sheet, you can use the Sheet Switcher feature to keep everything in a single graph. The video below demonstrates how to enable the Sheet Switcher so you can plot the data once and then easily switch between sheets to explore and compare the results.
Limitation: Only 1 sheet can be selected at a time.
Note: At 0:25 in the video, Shift+click is demonstrated for nested sorting. However, the upper arrow next to the “Book Name” column header is not visible due to the column being too narrow but you can see if in the Sheet Name header.
Hope you find this feature useful. Any feedback are welcome!
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