Copying & pasting plots externally

Returning to the main point of the previous example, the production of the dendrogram, note that printing or saving dendrograms (and other plots) in a variety of formats is seen in Section 7, but one easy thing to do with any PRIMER plot is to Edit>Copy it to the Windows clipboard and then paste it into the slide of presentation graphics software, such as Microsoft Powerpoint. It is then transferred in vector format, so can be ‘ungrouped’ (e.g. converted to an Office drawing object in Powerpoint) into lines and objects, rather than a pixel-based image. This gives much flexibility for putting the final touches to a plot, e.g. to place titles and plot keys exactly where required, but there is also substantial flexibility in the choice of graphic content within PRIMER itself, as is now seen.