When you copy and paste a Prism graph into Word (using Windows), you will paste an entire Prism object. The Word file contains not only the graph but also all the data and analysis choices used to create it. Double-click on the graph from within Word and you'll be able to edit the graph, change the data, and review and change your analysis choices.

In most cases, this Object Linking and Embedding is a very useful features. But what if you want to give a colleague a Word document, but not allow that colleague to see your data or analysis choices?

When you paste the graph, you can choose Paste Special and then choose to paste only a picture, rather than an object. But what if you've already pasted a bunch of Prism projects into a Word document. This article contains a Word macro you can run to purge the Word file of the Prism objects (data, analysis choices) while keeping the graphs as images.

Prism was designed so all the bars in bar graphs start at the X axis. But we figured out a trick to let you create floating bar graphs where the bars don't all begin at the same place. Say you want a bar to begin at the diastolic blood pressure and end at the systolic blood pressure, with different values for each bar. This article shows how you can get Prism to create box-and-whisker plots without the whiskers, and so create a floating bar graph.

If you use Prism 4 for Windows, please update (free) to release 4.03.

This release fixes a serious bug in computing post tests following repeated measures two way ANOVA. You can read more about this bug and how to work around it in Prism 3 and Prism Mac.

Prism 4.03 also fixes a few dozen other minor problems detailed here.

Prism Mac 4.0c (with the same fixes) will most likely be available in April.