(The next section covers familiarizing yourself with the Spectrum Window menus, buttons, cursors, and such.) Bring your dataset into the window Somewhere in the big white space of the spectrum window, right-click to call up a menu, then click the top choice, "Attributes." This will get you the Spectrum Attributes panel.
Now click "Add" and you'll get the following menu panel:
From here, select the file(s) you wish to be displayed in this window, and click "Add." Double-clicking won't add your spectrum here. Now you'll see your spectrum dataset name in the Spectrum Attributes File panel:
Now you can go ahead and draw your spectrum! Just to get something in your Spectrum Window, click the Autoscale button (the peak with a blue line and arrows pointing both up and down, Figure 3.11, “A new, blank Spectrum Window” or Figure 3.12, “The Spectrum Attributes panel”), then the Draw button (the pencil at the left, Figure 3.11, “A new, blank Spectrum Window” or Figure 3.12, “The Spectrum Attributes panel”). If you chose a 3D spectrum, youll just see the first plane, but if you choose a 2D spectrum, you'll see it in its entirety, just like Figure 3.8, “The Spectrum Panel, as first drawn.”. This is the end of the "Alternate means of opening and displaying spectra" section. The next sections will help orient you with the Spectrum and Spectrum Attributes windows.