Jon, the format was Excel 2000. Here is part of the table of data.

Contact Area Tickets Taken Walkaways Customers Dealt with Queries Dealt
with Longest Serving Time
Queue 1 Benefits 559 33 526 550 0:52:00
Queue 2 Council Tax 332 46 286 308 0:38:00
Queue 3 Housing 798 171 627 627 2:11:00
Totals 1689 250 1439 1485

I wanted to be able highlight just the first column (Contact Area) and then
the last column (Longest Serving Time) to show a bar chart as comparison. I
have recreated the data in a new sheet and it worked so I am thinking the
data maybe corrupt in this sheet (inherited from another dept).

Any thoughts you may have gratefully received.

"Jon Peltier" wrote:

I wonder what your data actually looks like. Would you care to post a
sample? Just copy it and paste it into a reply.

- Jon
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"Fi" wrote in message
...
I am trying to chart some times in a bar chart the first column lists 3
queue
types in a benefit office to be used as the legend. The second column has
a
times listed against the 3 queues formatted into hours and minutes. When
I
try to create a bar chart based on this simple data, the chart wizard does
not pick up the data of the series so shows a blank chart.

Any ideas?