On Thu, 10 May 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
Rab said:
But...after however many versions of excel, why does it still fail to be
able to perform so many desirable functions in a simple way via the chart
wizzard? If I want to generate charts with different chart types for
different series, multiple y-axes etc it seems that there are a lot of
counter-intuitive things going on. Please sort it out microsoft!

I sympathise, but remember that Excel is not a graphing program, it's a
spreadsheet. Once upon a time, there were graphing programs that were
sold separately, with names like Harvard Graph and Lotus Freelance, but
the demand doesn't seem to have been there for these programs to be
developed. The business market seems to be satisfied with a stunted
little graphing facility embedded in a spreadsheet.

(and yet the same big business customers demand that that little
graphing facility must have fancy metallic-look visual effects. go
figure.)

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