Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm still stuck.

I'd like the hours to be the y axis and the dates to be the x axis,

2:00 am
1:00 am
12:00 am
11:00 pm
10:00 pm
2/5 2/6 2/7 etc

My problem arises because I want time prior to 12:00am to be "negative", in
that it plots below 12am

Thanks

Regards,


"David Biddulph" wrote:

I don't think that helps, does it, Jon?
11:55 PM would come out as nearly 1.5, whereas 1:30 AM would be just above
0.5.
You could get what I think you're looking for by using =MOD(A2+0.5,1), but
then you would get the same problem either side of mid-day that you're
currently seeing around midnight.
--
David Biddulph

"Jon Peltier" wrote in message
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Oh right. How about =A2-INT(A2)+0.5, which puts midnight at a value of
0.5?

- Jon
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"Jay Kay" wrote in message
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Jon:
The issue with that is that when I chart 11:55 pm, it needs to be below
the
baseline of 1:30 am (since it occured earlier than the scheduled start
time).
Just plotting 11:55 pm would put it above than the baseline.

Regards,
Jay

"Jon Peltier" wrote:

I think you want two more columns, one for scheduled time without the
date,
so you use a formula like =A2-INT(A2), the other for actual time without
the
date. These are the Y values you want.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"Jay Kay" wrote in message
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I need to create a chart to represent the time an event is scheduled to
occur
vs when it actually occurred.

sched date/time act date/time diff comment
2/5/08 1:30 AM 2/5/08 1:45 AM 15 late start
2/6/08 1:30 AM 2/6/08 12:00 AM -90 early start
2/7/08 1:30 AM 2/6/08 11:45 PM -105 early start
2/8/08 1:30 AM 2/7/08 11:55 PM -95 early start
2/9/08 1:30 AM 2/9/08 2:00 AM 30 late start

The chart should have a static line for series 1 (scheduled) at 1:30
am
The line for series 2 should move above and below 1:30, depending on
if
the
event started late (rows 1,5) or early (rows 2-4).

The best I have been able to accomplish is a chart w/x axis as dates
and y
axis as the difference in minutes between scheduled start and actual
start.
The series 1 line is 0's, series 2 is a positive # (if late start) or
negative # (if early start)

But that's not what I need. I would like to y axis to display times
so
that
a quick look will show, for example, the event occurred at 12:00 on
day 2,
not that it occurred at -90 (minutes).

Any guidance will be appreciated.

Thanks.