Insert a blank cell at the top of the column values, so this blank is
associated with the first date. This moves the rest of the columns one
slot to the right, lining up with dates the way you want.

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Gudrun wrote:

I am making a graph with columns, where each column represents water use on a
certain time interval. I have 38 time intervals which are, each one, defined
by an initial and final date, such that the final date for one column is
always the initial date for the next column.

I have the dates on the category (X) axis, and they have to be exact. (E.g.
the first date is 24.1.1966, the next is 8.2.1967 and so on until 6.1.2004).
There is never the same number of days between two dates so the only way I
see to keep the exact dates is to define the axis as a category axis (not
€œTime-scale€�).

So here is my problem:
The number of dates is one more (39) than the number of columns, and I want
the first date to be right below a tick mark at the LEFT side of the first
column and so on. Then I want the last date to be right below a tick mark at
the RIGHT side of the very last column.

The tick marks are at the right place BUT, the first date appears right
below the middle of the first column and so on, and the last date is always
missing!


Does anyone know a way to fix this or is it maybe impossible to have the
number of labels one more than the number of values? !!