You can deal with the "irritating ... text" in the table by conditional
formatting, colouring the font white (or your cell's background colour) if
the cell satisfies the CF condition/ Formula is/ =ISNA(A1)
--
David Biddulph

"Ake" wrote in message
...
Yes, you are right. But that solves the plotting problem only- but it
still
does show up as irritating (to me ;-) text in the table, rather than
"empty
space". /Ake

"David Biddulph" wrote:

You have failed to quote any of the message to which you are replying, so
I
don't know what has already been suggested, but if you don't want the
chart
to plot your "" as a zero value, try changing IF(Condition;Something;"")
to
IF(Condition;Something;NA())
--
David Biddulph

"Ake" wrote in message
...
Thanks a lot Jon,

That's it. I did not realize that "" is in fact a string. And I did my
small
data set testing using "no data" instead of "" which I thought meant
the
same
thing. So I got confused by the results.

So, how should I actually do IF(Condition;Something;"") then?
The reason I use it is that it works well on the Y-data, and that the
table
I plot from looks "as clean as it is" (I don't want to fill all empty
cells
with "########").

Is there a workaround, or even some way to force the plot to "think
right".

Thank's again for clearing this up / Ake