Is this weekly data, for instance? Excel might interpret dates and provide
seven slots for one weekly value, leaving you with six empty slots per
filled point. Change from a time scale axis to a regular category axis: go
to the Chart menu, Chart Options, Axes tab, and under Category (X) Axis,
change Automatic to Category.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
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"Jeff Reese" wrote in message
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I've created a simple, standard bar chart in Excel. Oddly, Excel by
default
has made the widths of the bars themselves extremely narrow. I have never
seen this behavior before. Any ideas what may be causing this and
suggestions on how I can fix it?

Thanks.
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Jeff