You can select any plot and and cut or copy it. Both will copy the plot; cut will remove it from the document while copy will not. Once cut or copied, you can paste the plot into another PublishPlot document or into any application that accepts posted text.

Because each plot document can have numeric plots or bar charts but not both, you can only paste numeric plots into numeric plot documents and bar charts into bar chart documents. Any plot can be pasted into an empty plot document.

If you "clear" a plot (instead of "cut"), it will be deleted from the document but not copied. This method should be used when you want to delete a plot but do not want to change the current items in the clipboard.

You can click and drag on any plotted data set. If you click correctly, the draged image will be the "import" icon shown at the start of this section. The dragging options for plotted data are:

Because each plot document can have numeric plots or bar charts but not both, you can only drag numeric plots to numeric plot documents and bar charts to bar chart documents. Any plot can be dragged to an empty plot document.

To resize a plot, simply resize the plot window. All plot elements, including line thicknesses, font sizes, symbol sizes, etc., will scale to the new size.

As you resize, the window size will appear in a pop-up field. For some unknown reasons, plots look best when the two directions scale by the golden ratio (which is (1+√5)/2 = 1.6180339...). To help hit this ratio, the ratio of the larger dimension to the smaller dimension will be displayed in the pop-up field.

You can use commands in the Arrange submenu to reorder the plots and shapes. Select a plot or shape and choose an arrange command.

When plots are drawn, plot symbols always plot in their own layer above other plot elements. This approach prevents lines, labels, or arrows from crossing over plot symbols. Symbols from different plots may cover symbols from other plots, but that arrangement can be changed by reordering those plots with the Arrange submenu.

Use the Print... menu command to print a plot and use the Page Setup... command to customize the printing style (e.g., to choose landscape mode). Print outs are limited to a single page. If the plot is too big you can resize it and print or use Page Setup... command to pick a custom page size.

Use the Customize Toolbar... menu command (or control click on a plot's tool bar) to custom the items in the plot window tool bar. The PublishPlot tool bar items are:

• Show Help: open this help information in a window
• Show Inspector: show the plot inspector window
• Add Text: add a text label to the plot
• Add Shape: add an shape to the plot
• Add Data Set: add an data set to the plot
• Export PDF: export plot to a PDF file (hint: it is usually easier to drag a PDF to another window than to use this icon).
• Import Plot: import table of data from a plain text file using Import... menu command.
• Display Mouse Location: display plot units for the point under the mouse pointer as it hovers over the plot area.
• Display Plot Size: display actual width and height of the full plot (units for the dimensions can be set in the settings/preferences window).

Note: an apparent bug in MacOS Big Sur may cause the last two items to display incorrectly in the customize tool bar window. They still display and work correctly when installed in the tool bar.