New in OriginPro 2025b und Origin 2025b

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OriginPro and Origin 2025 offer the following new features:

Project Browser

This new dialog provides a list view of contents in the current project and a quick way to edit items.

Key features include:

  • Reduce list by type such as folder, graph, workbook, sheet, column etc.
  • Display items from entire project or current folder/subfolders only
  • Sort list by name, path, size, modified date etc
  • Search items by strings in name, path, comments, date, size, note etc.
  • Mouse over items for preview and double click to activate
  • Edit multiple selected items such as bulk rename, change formula, delete, hide etc.

Modern Search Box

A new search tool has been added to OriginPro and Origin 2025b with several key features:

  • Search box on top of the interface for easy access
  • Perform tasks such as plotting and analysis by keyword search and then click to execute
  • Find results in various areas such as menus, toolbars, Apps, samples, FAQs etc.
  • Recently typed keywords are displayed for quick repeat search
  • Recent actions are displayed to quickly launch the tool
  • Context menu and Mini toolbar results displayed along with tooltip on how to access them

Key Chords for User-defined Shortcuts

OriginPro and Origin 2025b  provide a new mechanism to create hotkeys to speed up your work.

  • Ctrl+Prefix+2nd Key mechanism to allow more hotkeys
  • Ctrl+click on menu, toolbar button, apps to define 2nd key
  • Ctrl+Prefix (\) to view all available keys
  • "Preferences: Key Chord..." dialog to manage Prefix and 2nd Keys.
  • Create Key Chord for running LabTalk Script

Stats GUI Mode with Pre-installed Stats Apps

OriginPro 2025b: Option during installation for pre-installing Statistics Apps and switching to simpler GUI with re-organized plot menu
Option during installation for pre-installing Statistics Apps and switching to simpler GUI with re-organized plot menu

The installer in OriginPro and Origin 2025b provides two check boxes that allow you to:

  • Pre-install important Statistics Apps such as SPC, DOE, GLR etc. as part OriginPro installation
  • Switch to a Stats Mode GUI with reduced menus and toolbars, and re-organized Plot menu focusing on statistical features
  • Users can toggle between Stats Mode and Default Mode for GUI from the Preferences: GUI Mode menu

OriginPro 2025b: Option during installation for pre-installing Statistics Apps and switching to simpler GUI with re-organized plot menu
Option during installation for pre-installing Statistics Apps and switching to simpler GUI with re-organized plot menu

Recent Files

Use the "Recent Files" button located at the bottom left of the workspace to quickly load recent Origin files or data:

  • Supports Origin project (opju), workbook(ogw*) and graph (ogg*) files
  • Search box at the bottom of the list to search keyword in file name
  • Re-import data (imported by data connector) with previous settings
  • Detailed file path is displayed on mouse over

Interactive Cell Referencing

Define cell formula with interactive cell or range referencing similar to Excel:

  • Click on a cell to refer to the cell
  • Click on a column header to refer to the whole column
  • Drag a range of cells to refer to the range
  • Works only within same worksheet
  • Ctrl+E to highlight cells with formulas or links

Dialog for Setting Graph Options

This new dialog provides one place to define common settings for graphs:

  • Common settings for axis, font, layout and legend
  • Apply to active graph, graphs in folder or all graphs in project
  • Set as default for future new graphs
  • System variable @GGO to control types of graph templates to apply settings (default: 1 = system templates only)

Window Switcher

This new feature in OriginPro and Origin 2025b provides a quick way to switch to a different window in your current folder::

  • Ctrl+Tab (forward) and Ctrl+Shift+Tab (backward) to toggle child windows with preview
  • system.pagenav.compact=0 to block all workspace
OriginPro 2025b: Window Switcher

Trend Lines in Graphs

In OriginPro and Origin 2025b, you can add trendlines to your graph to visualize trends in your data::

  • Mini toolbar to add trendline for single or multiple plots
  • 6 trendline options: Linear, Polynomial, Power, Logarithmic, Exponential and Moving Average.
  • Support for fixing parameter values
  • Mini toolbar to customize trend line and label

Report Sheet Graph Size and Arrangement

Graphs embedded in report sheets can now be customized:

  • Mini toolbar button to change graph size and number of graphs per row
  • Save settings as default
  • Customize one graph and apply style or scale to other graphs
  • Graph width and number of columns included in Report Style dialog under Preferences menu

New Graph Types

The following new graph types have been added OriginPro and Origin 2025b:

  • Treemap
  • Heatmap with Dendrogram
  • Heatmap with Grouping
  • Polar Vector
  • Polar Quiver
  • Normal CDF Plot
  • Interaction Plot
  • Main Effects Plot
  • Run Chart
  • Symmetry Plot
OriginPro 2025: Treemap
Treemap
OriginPro 2025b: Heatmap with Dendrogram
Heatmap with Dendrogram
OriginPro 2025b: Heatmap with Grouping
Heatmap with Grouping
OriginPro 2025b: Polar Vector
Polar Vector
OriginPro 2025b: Polar Quiver Plot
Polar Quiver Plot
OriginPro 2025b: Normal CDF Plot
Normal CDF Plot
OriginPro 2025b: Symmetry Plot
Symmetry Plot
OriginPro 2025b: Main Effects Plot
Main Effects Plot
OriginPro 2025b: Run Chart
Run Chart
OriginPro 2025b: Interaction Plot
Interaction Plot

New Apps

The following new/updated Apps are available with OriginPro and Origin 2025b:

OriginPro 2025b: New Apps

Improvements to Key Statistics Apps

Several key improvements have been made to the "General Linear Regression (GLR)", "Statistical Process Control (SPC)" and "Design of Experiments (DOE)" apps:

General Linear Regression

  • Support stepwise model selection
  • Support response optimization
  • Support K-fold cross-validation
  • Support prediction of Y from given X, with confidence and prediction intervals
  • Improved model term selection in dialog
  • More results in the report, including Effects Plot, VIF, AICc, BIC, Predicted R-Square, and Outlier Detection using residuals

Design of Experiments

  • Support Mixture Design
  • Support stepwise model selection
  • Support center points in the model
  • Support defining custom design from a worksheet
  • Support setting weights for responses in optimization
  • Provide more results in the report, including coded/uncoded coefficients, VIF
  • Improved model term selection in dialog

Statistical Process Control

  • Add additional reports to the capability analysis output sheet, such as Summary Report, Stability Report, and Normality Report
  • Support timestamps in control charts

Other Features

General

  • Pin files on top of the "Recent Origin Files" dialog
  • "View: Hide Toolbars"
  • Better menu gap and font size on high DPI
  • No dramatic font size change in render and edit mode of Notes window on high DPI
  • Hot keys for Tools toolbar buttons
  • Keep the Unlock Imported Data status after reimport
  • Source info on tooltip of result sheet in Object Manager
  • Option to install statistics apps and simplified GUI for statistics users

Graphing

  • Better default graph page layout
  • More geometric polygon shapes e.g. rounded rectangle, triangle, trapezoid, diamond, pentagon
  • Mini dialog to add reference lines
  • Slicer on browser graphs and extract sliced data
  • Auto group with existing plots when drag & drop new data into graph
  • Protect graph from being edited or deleted
  • Toggle show/hide of masked points on individual graph
  • Uneven heatmap gaps
  • Box chart tooltip for range, count, mean, median, 25%, 75% and upper/lower whiskers
  • Change graph page DPI

Data Handling

  • Conditional formatting to highlight min/max column-wise or row-wise
  • Conditional formatting of Top/Bottom, Pareto, and Outlier
  • Paste (insert) copied cells
  • Remove masked cells or cells with missing values
  • Highlight the cells with formula, linked value, variable.
  • Query data from multiple sheets
  • Mini toolbar to change column format: Numeric, Text Date, Time, etc.
  • Autofill on absolute reference in cell formula
  • Paste a single line text into one cell by default
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