# Plots menu PRIMER 7 has a new **Plots** main menu, available when the active window is a data matrix. This brings together a number of standard plot formats, and more specialised ones, relevant to a range of multivariate analyses. Some are similar or identical to those in PRIMER 6, e.g. **Plots>Dominance Plot**, **Geometric Class Plot** and **Species-Accum Plot** (Section [16](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/16-diversity-curves-geometric-class-dominance-and-species-accumulation-plots)), and **Draftsman Plot** (already seen in Section [4](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/4-pre-treatment-options) and again in Section [13](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/13-linking-assemblage-to-environment-best-bio-env-linktree)). Others are new to PRIMER 7: the **Histogram Plot** was seen earlier (Section [4](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/4-pre-treatment-options)), as were **Scatter Plot** (Section [5](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/5-resemblance-similarities-dissimilarities-and-distances)) and **Surface Plot** (end of Section [4](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/4-pre-treatment-options) and in Section [5](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/5-resemblance-similarities-dissimilarities-and-distances)). A significant new feature in PRIMER 7, the specialised **Shade Plot**, was introduced in Section [4](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/4-pre-treatment-options) as a means to aid pre-treatment choice and is discussed in more detail in Section [10](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/10-wizards-and-species-analyses-basic-mva-coherence-plots-matrix-display-simper), in the context of interpreting species patterns across samples. There is a similar context for **Line Plot**, in the form of a multi-plot created by **Wizards>Coherence plots**, seen in Section [10](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/10-wizards-and-species-analyses-basic-mva-coherence-plots-matrix-display-simper), and the other three plot types in this menu are also standard graphic constructions: a **Bar Plot** can show relative composition of different species in each of a set of (averaged) samples, and **Box Plot** and **Means Plot** (Section [15](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/15-biodiversity-measures-and-tests-diverse-taxdtest)) provide standard univariate tools pre- and post-hypothesis testing for a one-way layout, e.g. the latter giving confidence intervals for *effect sizes* (generalised to multivariate data by the *bootstrap region plots* of Section [17](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/books/primer-v7-user-manual-tutorial/chapter/17-bootstrap-regions-for-group-means-bootstrap-averages), under **Analyse>Bootstrap Averages** on resemblances). The **Plots** menu items are mainly exemplified in the analysis sections in which they are most likely to be useful, but three of the standard graphic displays are given below for the Bristol Channel data. [![ScreenshotPage111a.png](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/uploads/images/gallery/2024-06/scaled-1680-/screenshotpage111a.png)](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/uploads/images/gallery/2024-06/screenshotpage111a.png) [![ScreenshotPage112a.png](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/uploads/images/gallery/2024-06/scaled-1680-/screenshotpage112a.png)](https://learninghub.primer-e.com/uploads/images/gallery/2024-06/screenshotpage112a.png) Save and close the Bristol Channel workspace, Bristol Channel ws.