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Trying to plot data from two colums:
X-Axis: Column 1 is Date/Time (mm/dd/yy hh:mm, e.g. 11/21/06 13:10), Y-Axis: Column 2 is pH (number to 2 decimal places, e.g. 8.24). QUESTIONS: 1 - I do not know what DATA RANGE is and not sure what I should be highlighting/selecting for data range. 2 - Can not get Date/Time data in column 1 to show properly on X axis of chart...will show date but not time so all points are lumped into one area on top of each other...number format for chart and data have been changed to be the same. |
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1. Put a label above the pH values (e.g., "pH"), but resist the urge to put
a label above the date/time values. Select the two columns of data, from the label row to the last row of the data. This is your data range. You can select the entire range; if you select a single cell within the range, Excel tries to find the range to plot (and it usually does pretty well). 2. You need an XY chart, not a Line chart. A line chart's date-scale axis (incorrectly called a time-scale axis) only recognizes integer values, that is, dates and not times. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "erik" wrote in message ... Trying to plot data from two colums: X-Axis: Column 1 is Date/Time (mm/dd/yy hh:mm, e.g. 11/21/06 13:10), Y-Axis: Column 2 is pH (number to 2 decimal places, e.g. 8.24). QUESTIONS: 1 - I do not know what DATA RANGE is and not sure what I should be highlighting/selecting for data range. 2 - Can not get Date/Time data in column 1 to show properly on X axis of chart...will show date but not time so all points are lumped into one area on top of each other...number format for chart and data have been changed to be the same. |
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