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Default Growing/Shrinking/Selective Chart Data

1. First, put the X values to the left of the Y values. It's not strictly
necessary, but Excel by default uses the left column for X.

2. I would use a dynamic charting approach, which accounts for a changing
range of data:
http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/200...ynamic-charts/

3. I would deal with the condition of plotting only Y5 by defining another
name. In my example I used a name "VertValues" for the dynamic Y value
range. I would define these names:

Name: TheMinimum
Refers To: =5

Name: VertValues2
Refers To: =IF(VertValuesTheMinimum,VertValues,NA())

Use VertValues2 in the chart rather than VertValues.

- Jon
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"Rob" wrote in message
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I'm looking for a Dynamic means of populating a bar chart.

Cloumn A (Rows 2-200) Has the Names (Y Axis) of each Item and Cloumn B
(Rows
2-200) (X Axis) has the Number Values. My problem is twofold... One, every
week the Y axis list can grow or shrink and Two, I only want to show those
that have an X Axis value that is greater than five. Anything less than or
equal to five I would like to have hidden from showing in the chart.

Is it possible to have some sort of way or formula that can make this
possible in a chart or in pivot table?

Thanks in Advance.