I know at some point this functionality was broken. However, it's fixed
again by Excel 2003 SP2; you can change a line segment to None, whether it
connects two regular points, spans a blank, or spans NA().

- Jon
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Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
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"ShaneDevenshire" wrote in
message ...
I should clarify, I test the idea of selecting the line segment that is
interpolated across the missing point and changed its color to None and it
worked in my copy of 2000 but not in 2002. These cells contained =NA(),
not
a blank.

An alternate way to do this is to set the line color to match the
background
color rather than to set it to None. With this approach there are issues,
but they can all be solved.

--
Thanks,
Shane Devenshire


"Jon Peltier" wrote:

That only works with real blank cells, not cells in which a formula
returns
"" or any other value.

- Jon
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Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
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"OssieMac" wrote in message
...
I'm not sure if I am on the right track with the problem but if I am,
it
appears to me that you only have to select the chart, select Tools,
Options,
Chart Tab and set the Plot Empty Cells option.

"Jon Peltier" wrote:

This is vaguely familiar (everything before yesterday is only vaguely
familiar).

I just tested Excel 2003 SP2, and the line can be formatted as no line
without a problem. I recall that the issue was that instead of making
the
line segment vanish, what Excel did was draw the line from the
previous
point to the subsequent point, so the point in the middle was still
there
but not connected to either adjacent point. I wonder if that was how
Excel
2003 came out, and they fixed it (i.e., changed it back) in an SP.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
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"Tushar Mehta" wrote in
message
om...
Hi Jon,

I just retested versions of XL from 2000 to 2007: created a Line
chart
and
then tried to format a single point to 'no line'. As of today, in
2002
(SP2?) it still shows the line. I am reasonably sure that was the
same
behavior with 2003 when it first came out but today the line
disappeared
for
the single point. So, it was probably fixed in some 2003 SP.

--
Regards,

Tushar Mehta
www.tushar-mehta.com
Excel, PowerPoint, and VBA add-ins, tutorials
Custom MS Office productivity solutions

In article ,
says...
Tushar -

In which version of Excel did Microsoft make the change?

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
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"Tushar Mehta" wrote in
message
om...
That's the way MS designed the charting capability. If you are
plotting a
XY Scatter chart, check out the add-in at
Chart gap for N/A
http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/so...ity/index.html

It used to work with Line charts until MS made a change that
messed
up
how
Line charts deal with breaks in the line.

--
Regards,

Tushar Mehta
www.tushar-mehta.com
Excel, PowerPoint, and VBA add-ins, tutorials
Custom MS Office productivity solutions

In article ,
says...
I have found the trick to prevent 0's from showing in a chart
when
the
data
is blank:

If(H2="",NA(),H2/F2)

However, the chart line extrapolates from the previous data
point
to
the
next datapoint instead of showing a gap. I've looked at
Tools-Options-Chart
and the Active Chart - Plot Empty Cells as "Not Plotted (leave
gaps)"
is
selected.

The data is being charted on a secondary Y axis if this makes a
difference.
Please help. I need to have gaps.