I agree - this used to be a very handy feature. For example to
calculate the gradient of a custom line fit (where trendline would
honour points I wanted to ignore) I used to add a dummy series with
two points and move them on the chart to fit the data.

On 13 Oct, 15:19, johnc wrote:
This is very dissapointing. *That was one of the most useful abilities ofExcelfor what I use it for.