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Default CAN'T SELECT ALL OF MY SOURCE DATA IN EXCEL

Spending a few minutes to organize your data will save a few hours of
frustration.

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"Del Cotter" wrote in message
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
Heironymous Josch said:
I am at wits end; I am building revenue/profit projection charts from a
very
complex Excel spreadsheet. Due to the complexity, I am unable to simply
click and drag blocks of source data, I am selecting each cell
individually
and separating them with commas in the Source Data Selection Toolbar.


You're making life unecessarily difficult for yourself. Instead of reading
cells from all over the place directly into the graph utility, read the
cells from all over the place into a contiguous cell range, and then click
and drag those blocks of data the way you normally would.

One of the most important tools in the Excel graph-maker's mental toolbox
is to remember: "Worksheet cells cost nothing: I do not have to conserve
them." :-)

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