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Default Getting a useful Auto Scale

There's not a "scale" tab, but the first tab on the Format Axis dialog has
the axis scale stuff on it.

For 2:15:00 you'll have to enter 0.09375, which is 2.25 hours divided by 24
hours. Rather than calculating this, type it into a cell, then change the
cell's number format to "general".

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"wab713" wrote in message
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Your steps seems clear, but using Excel 2007 I can't follow them. Could
you
try to state it differently? I appreciate your help on this.
wab713

"FloMM2" wrote:

sb1920alk,
On the chart, select the scale (left mouse click), this will select the
scale.
Then right mouse click on the selected scale.
Select "Format Axis", then select the "Scale" tab.
Experiment with it until you like what you see.
hth

"sb1920alk" wrote:

I have a chart showing number of calls per employee as a column graph
and
duration of calls as a line graph together. The scale is automatic. The
scale
for the number of calls works great. The scale for the duration works,
but it
doesn't use nice numbers. For example, if my employee with the longest
duration is currently at 01:55:43 (hh:mm:ss), the top of the scale
shows
02:09:36. I want to keep it on automatic, but I want it to use nicer
numbers,
like 02:00:00 or 02:15:00 instead of 02:09:36. Is there any easy way to
do
this? If not, is there any way to do this?

Thanks,