When I was at school adding error bars could be done with a single click on a button, then selecting the data that told the graph how big the error bars were. If they were all the same size you could just drag to get a column repeating the same number.
Now the error bars button is about three submenus deep (or feels that way), so many more clicks are needed to find it. Then, when you press “add error bars” it puts error bars of length 1 on the X and Y axes immediately, without asking for sizes. If you have already chosen sensible axis limits this often completely ruins them (eg. The quantity goes from −1E-5 to +1E-5, oh no! Error bars of size 1, change scale!). Then you need to click on the error bars to modify them to sensible numbers, which (if you were at a large scale) requires you to ruin the scale anyway to zoom in to a point that error bars of length 1 are visible.
An example is error bars in excel.
When I was at school adding error bars could be done with a single click on a button, then selecting the data that told the graph how big the error bars were. If they were all the same size you could just drag to get a column repeating the same number.
Now the error bars button is about three submenus deep (or feels that way), so many more clicks are needed to find it. Then, when you press “add error bars” it puts error bars of length 1 on the X and Y axes immediately, without asking for sizes. If you have already chosen sensible axis limits this often completely ruins them (eg. The quantity goes from −1E-5 to +1E-5, oh no! Error bars of size 1, change scale!). Then you need to click on the error bars to modify them to sensible numbers, which (if you were at a large scale) requires you to ruin the scale anyway to zoom in to a point that error bars of length 1 are visible.