Right click on a spectrum and select ‘Annotations and Chart Appearance’ to add a new annotation.

Once added, you’ll see a text box appear on screen. You can left click to drag and drop this box in position, and right click to edit. Right click, show properties allows you to change the text, font, and colour of your annotation.

When you add a new annotation and go into the properties panel, you can add a line to your annotation using the ‘Line Present’ option. Set this to true, and a line will appear. You can format this in many ways.

Line Dash Style: Switch between solid and dashed lines

Line Start X: Specify the energy of the line

Line Type: Line can start at the axis, at the data, or as a free setting (note, if ‘Anywhere is selected, a new option called line start Y will appear to specific the start of the line)

Line Visible: Turn line on and off without removing options

Line width: Line width

With a spectrum selected, use the manual ID button to open the peak ID menu. In the ID by element tab, you can select elements you know (or think!) are in the dataset, and see which peaks line up with your element lines. If everything matches and you have no ‘extra’ peaks, then you have what you think you have. If you find peaks without a corresponding peak marker then you may have a more complicated dataset than you thought…

Clicking on ‘add as annotation’ will put all the peak markers onto the data, so you can export the image with markers. Click ‘add as peaks’ and Avantage will integrate and load the correct RSFs to enable dataset quantification.

Again using the manual peak ID button, you can search for a peak ID by energy range. Dragging, expanding and analysing peaks in your data will bring up potential peak identities in the window. Select the peaks you believe them to be, and you can add peak markers or integrate the data based on your evaluation of the element.

Use the ‘Toggle User Annotation’ button in ‘Display Options’ in the top right corner of Avantage, to turn annotations on and off.

New annotations can be added, and existing annotations cut, copies and pasted by right clicking on an annotation in your spectrum.

If you have added annotations and would like to remove them, right click on the data and click ‘remove all annotations’.