Can I use graph editor to delete point labels?

[Leah Bevis]

I am using a user-written command gsa and gsagraph (as well as, same problem, isa and isa_graph) to create figures like the attached. A reviewer has asked me to delete the labels on the covariate scatter plots (the light gray labels on the scattered, dark gray markers, beneath the blue line). The commands themselves don't allow me to suppress those labels, and so I thought maybe I could edit them away in the manual editor. I'm not very experienced w/ manual editing, so maybe I'm missing something -- but it seems like it's not possible to leave the markers (plus signs) and delete the labels?

If I'm wrong, I'd be very grateful to know how to do this!

[Nick Cox]

Not sure I understand quite what you want to do but I would just re-run a revised graph command. The code you used is embedded within the .gph file.

[Leah Bevis]

Ok, I realized I was wrong -- in that figure (png attached for those w/out stata 17) the markers and marker labels are all pushed so closely together that it's hard to see which one you are clicking on. But I realized that I CAN manually change the color of each individually, the markers and the labels, and the label color can be changed to "none", exactly as I want. It was useful for me to realize that when I double-click on a marker, the edit box that pops up is titled "Marker properties", and when I double-click on a label, the edit box that pops up is titled "Label properties". This allows me to know what I'm editing.

Thank you Nick, and Andrew M who wrote me asking for the Stata 16 version so he could take a look. (I actually couldn't figure out how to save it to Stata 16 using graph save...)