A scatter chart needs numerical values. Try a line chart, which will treat
the text "1951-1955" etc as labels.

- Jon
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"John" wrote in message
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Trying to plot mortality rates per 5 year blocks, i.e. 1951-1955,
1956-1960.
Can't get scatter plot to display those specific intervals. Rather, it
simply labels the time points by the number cell in which the interval was
typed, i.e. 1, 2.
thanks