additional information. There are no formulas in this data.
The dates are added by dragging a corner down to create consecutive dates.
Then I delete the rows that have dates when the stock market is not open.
I fill in the value at the end of each day as reported by my the brokers
web page.
I have used this data now for more than 4 years. but finally the number of
rows exceeded 699 and the plot automatically changed the dates to January
1,1900 to 1904.
If I graph any number of consecutive rows, less than 699, I get the date
printed in column one.
"Jon Peltier" wrote in message
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Richard -
What are these gaps? Is it a formula that returns "" to look like a blank?
A chart doesn't treat "" as a blank, it treats it as text, with a value 0.
January 0, 1900 is day 0 in Excel's calendar.
- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com/
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Richard Goh wrote:
I can plot this range of data, so it is not bad data. I now have
several plots, one for each year. The problem only occurs when I choose
more than 699 rows (any 699 rows).
"Jon Peltier" wrote in message
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Richard -
A scatter chart series can have no more than 32,000 points. So that's not
it. I suspect there's a bit of nonnumeric data at about row 699 or 700.
If it looks like a number but it's left-aligned in the cell, this could
be the problem. Make sure the cell has a date or general format (not
text), then copy a blank cell, select the bad cell, and use Paste Special
from the Edit menu, with the Values and Operation-Add options, to try to
fix it.
- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com/
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Richard Goh wrote:
I am attempting to plot my investments value against dates with Excel
2000 in a Windows XP SP2 system
I have over 750 date rows, with gaps starting in 2003
When I choose a scatter chart, the dates on the chart revert to Jan 1,
1900
It was working up until the number of rows exceeded 699.
Is this a problem with Excel? Is there a limit to the number of rows
that can be used?