Congratulations on your progress so far!

It sounds like you want to get up to speed with Charting.

I suggest you reserve some hours and look through:

Jon Peltier's site:
http://www.peltiertech.com/index.html

Andy Pope's site:
http://www.andypope.info/charts.htm


--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"Jack144" wrote in message
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I am on a diet and would like to make a spreadsheet to help track my
progress. I weigh in every morning and I now have about one month's worth
of
data, so I am anxious to get started - the problem is that I know almost
nothing about Excel. I have bought a book, Show Me, which hasn't helped
me
much.
More specifically I have a year-long plan. (Yes, I got that column figured
out - and I can live with 30-day months) So, I have a beginning number
(weight on January 1) and an end number (goal weight for December 30) I
plan
to enter my weight each day and would like to have the spreadsheet
calculate
how I am doing (the number of pounds, + or -, [above or below] the
predicted
weight that I should be at on that day - assuming a linear weight loss of
60
lbs from the first day to the last day - 360 days later) OK, so I am
compulsive, but it's working! I lost over 10 pounds already. Put on a
pound
or two and it shows up right away.
I have messed with the Graph Wizard and even trend lines - I love this
program, but I need a jump start. Any sympathetic gurus out there?