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How do I plot date against time?
I want to plot date against time. I have dates, the moonrise and moonset
times. I would like the date on the horizontal axis and a time scale on the vertical axis, plotting the time of the moonrise and moonset as two different series. The data looks like this: Date Rise Set 10/01/07 21:03 12:05 10/02/07 22:06 13:09 10/03/07 23:14 14:01 10/04/07 14:43 10/05/07 0:23 15:16 10/06/07 1:31 15:43 .... (sometimes rise/set are blank because the moon rose on the previous day; there was no moonrise on a specific date) I understand that the preferred format is an XY chart (lines)? When I do it this way I get THREE series, of rise, set AND date. Here are my questions: 1. How do I get the date back on the horizontal axis? 2. How do I get Time displayes on the vertical axis in more intervals, preferably by hour? I am using Excel 2007. Thanks for your help! Colleen |
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How do I plot date against time?
1) You have column headers: Date, Rise, Set. Delete the first one )Date) and
make the chart. Excel will now treat the first column as the x-values rather than the first y-value series. 2) Replace the blank by =NA() which displays as #N/A. The chart engine will ignore this point best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "cmccloskey56" wrote in message ... I want to plot date against time. I have dates, the moonrise and moonset times. I would like the date on the horizontal axis and a time scale on the vertical axis, plotting the time of the moonrise and moonset as two different series. The data looks like this: Date Rise Set 10/01/07 21:03 12:05 10/02/07 22:06 13:09 10/03/07 23:14 14:01 10/04/07 14:43 10/05/07 0:23 15:16 10/06/07 1:31 15:43 ... (sometimes rise/set are blank because the moon rose on the previous day; there was no moonrise on a specific date) I understand that the preferred format is an XY chart (lines)? When I do it this way I get THREE series, of rise, set AND date. Here are my questions: 1. How do I get the date back on the horizontal axis? 2. How do I get Time displayes on the vertical axis in more intervals, preferably by hour? I am using Excel 2007. Thanks for your help! Colleen |
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How do I plot date against time?
How does this help me? I lose the date dimension, and seemingly plot one time
against another. I want to see two points (lines/series) for each date, with date as the x-axis and time as the y-axis and two series plotted as different colors (rise and set). Somehow I got a chart to show the two time series on the y-axis, I just wasn't able to get the date on the x-axis as I wished. The note about #N/A is valuable - I didn't know that one. "Bernard Liengme" wrote: 1) You have column headers: Date, Rise, Set. Delete the first one )Date) and make the chart. Excel will now treat the first column as the x-values rather than the first y-value series. 2) Replace the blank by =NA() which displays as #N/A. The chart engine will ignore this point best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "cmccloskey56" wrote in message ... I want to plot date against time. I have dates, the moonrise and moonset times. I would like the date on the horizontal axis and a time scale on the vertical axis, plotting the time of the moonrise and moonset as two different series. The data looks like this: Date Rise Set 10/01/07 21:03 12:05 10/02/07 22:06 13:09 10/03/07 23:14 14:01 10/04/07 14:43 10/05/07 0:23 15:16 10/06/07 1:31 15:43 ... (sometimes rise/set are blank because the moon rose on the previous day; there was no moonrise on a specific date) I understand that the preferred format is an XY chart (lines)? When I do it this way I get THREE series, of rise, set AND date. Here are my questions: 1. How do I get the date back on the horizontal axis? 2. How do I get Time displayes on the vertical axis in more intervals, preferably by hour? I am using Excel 2007. Thanks for your help! Colleen |
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How do I plot date against time?
If you have deleted the header from your date column, and you now select the
range including the 3 columns (date and 2 sets of time) + the headers for the two time columns (with the top left cell of this range being the blank where you deleted the header of the date column), you should now be able to Insert/ Chart/ XY again, and this time it should give the chart as you want it. An alternative, working from your existing chart with the 2 series, is to edit the Source Data and adjust the X axis series for each of your 2 series to show your date series. The other thing to check, of course, is that you actually do have dates in your cells in the date series, & not text. -- David Biddulph "cmccloskey56" wrote in message ... How does this help me? I lose the date dimension, and seemingly plot one time against another. I want to see two points (lines/series) for each date, with date as the x-axis and time as the y-axis and two series plotted as different colors (rise and set). Somehow I got a chart to show the two time series on the y-axis, I just wasn't able to get the date on the x-axis as I wished. The note about #N/A is valuable - I didn't know that one. "Bernard Liengme" wrote: 1) You have column headers: Date, Rise, Set. Delete the first one )Date) and make the chart. Excel will now treat the first column as the x-values rather than the first y-value series. 2) Replace the blank by =NA() which displays as #N/A. The chart engine will ignore this point best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "cmccloskey56" wrote in message ... I want to plot date against time. I have dates, the moonrise and moonset times. I would like the date on the horizontal axis and a time scale on the vertical axis, plotting the time of the moonrise and moonset as two different series. The data looks like this: Date Rise Set 10/01/07 21:03 12:05 10/02/07 22:06 13:09 10/03/07 23:14 14:01 10/04/07 14:43 10/05/07 0:23 15:16 10/06/07 1:31 15:43 ... (sometimes rise/set are blank because the moon rose on the previous day; there was no moonrise on a specific date) I understand that the preferred format is an XY chart (lines)? When I do it this way I get THREE series, of rise, set AND date. Here are my questions: 1. How do I get the date back on the horizontal axis? 2. How do I get Time displayes on the vertical axis in more intervals, preferably by hour? I am using Excel 2007. Thanks for your help! Colleen |
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How do I plot date against time?
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
cmccloskey56 said: How does this help me? I lose the date dimension, and seemingly plot one time against another. No, don't delete the Date column, just leave its header row empty. The Chart Wizard is a bit dim, and is looking for blank spaces in the top left hand corner of the selected range, in order to be able to figure which rows and columns you want to be the X axis and which to be the series titles. For instance, this range: A B 1 2 2 2 3 4 will produce 1,2 in the x-axis, and name the two data series "A" and "B". If you give the 1,2 a header, the Wizard gets confused and tries to plot all three as data series, as you discovered. Once you've successfully built your chart, you can then give the first column a label, you don't have to leave it blank. This also works for more than one row and column. For instance: X X A B 2007 1 2 2 2007 2 3 4 Will create a chart where *both* the year column and the numbers 1,2 are on the x axis, and the series are named XA and XB. This works for many levels of row and column, depending on how extensive the blank rectangle in the top left corner is. Again, they only need to be blank while creating the chart. Afterwards you can fill them with whatever you like. I want to see two points (lines/series) for each date, with date as the x-axis and time as the y-axis and two series plotted as different colors (rise and set). Somehow I got a chart to show the two time series on the y-axis, I just wasn't able to get the date on the x-axis as I wished. The note about #N/A is valuable - I didn't know that one. It's also okay to just leave the cell blank if it's not causing you any trouble. -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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How do I plot date against time?
Bravo! So simple! Why did deleting that header work its magic?
Doesn't matter, it worked and I got what I wanted. Thanks, all! "David Biddulph" wrote: If you have deleted the header from your date column, and you now select the range including the 3 columns (date and 2 sets of time) + the headers for the two time columns (with the top left cell of this range being the blank where you deleted the header of the date column), you should now be able to Insert/ Chart/ XY again, and this time it should give the chart as you want it. An alternative, working from your existing chart with the 2 series, is to edit the Source Data and adjust the X axis series for each of your 2 series to show your date series. The other thing to check, of course, is that you actually do have dates in your cells in the date series, & not text. -- David Biddulph "cmccloskey56" wrote in message ... How does this help me? I lose the date dimension, and seemingly plot one time against another. I want to see two points (lines/series) for each date, with date as the x-axis and time as the y-axis and two series plotted as different colors (rise and set). Somehow I got a chart to show the two time series on the y-axis, I just wasn't able to get the date on the x-axis as I wished. The note about #N/A is valuable - I didn't know that one. "Bernard Liengme" wrote: 1) You have column headers: Date, Rise, Set. Delete the first one )Date) and make the chart. Excel will now treat the first column as the x-values rather than the first y-value series. 2) Replace the blank by =NA() which displays as #N/A. The chart engine will ignore this point best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "cmccloskey56" wrote in message ... I want to plot date against time. I have dates, the moonrise and moonset times. I would like the date on the horizontal axis and a time scale on the vertical axis, plotting the time of the moonrise and moonset as two different series. The data looks like this: Date Rise Set 10/01/07 21:03 12:05 10/02/07 22:06 13:09 10/03/07 23:14 14:01 10/04/07 14:43 10/05/07 0:23 15:16 10/06/07 1:31 15:43 ... (sometimes rise/set are blank because the moon rose on the previous day; there was no moonrise on a specific date) I understand that the preferred format is an XY chart (lines)? When I do it this way I get THREE series, of rise, set AND date. Here are my questions: 1. How do I get the date back on the horizontal axis? 2. How do I get Time displayes on the vertical axis in more intervals, preferably by hour? I am using Excel 2007. Thanks for your help! Colleen |
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How do I plot date against time?
Del, thanks! I import data every day, so leaving a header *off* is just so
foreign to me that it felt just so wrong... Blind faith in your (pl) knowledge and prior experience helped me past my own preconceptions. Thanks, all! "Del Cotter" wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting, cmccloskey56 said: How does this help me? I lose the date dimension, and seemingly plot one time against another. No, don't delete the Date column, just leave its header row empty. The Chart Wizard is a bit dim, and is looking for blank spaces in the top left hand corner of the selected range, in order to be able to figure which rows and columns you want to be the X axis and which to be the series titles. For instance, this range: A B 1 2 2 2 3 4 will produce 1,2 in the x-axis, and name the two data series "A" and "B". If you give the 1,2 a header, the Wizard gets confused and tries to plot all three as data series, as you discovered. Once you've successfully built your chart, you can then give the first column a label, you don't have to leave it blank. This also works for more than one row and column. For instance: X X A B 2007 1 2 2 2007 2 3 4 Will create a chart where *both* the year column and the numbers 1,2 are on the x axis, and the series are named XA and XB. This works for many levels of row and column, depending on how extensive the blank rectangle in the top left corner is. Again, they only need to be blank while creating the chart. Afterwards you can fill them with whatever you like. I want to see two points (lines/series) for each date, with date as the x-axis and time as the y-axis and two series plotted as different colors (rise and set). Somehow I got a chart to show the two time series on the y-axis, I just wasn't able to get the date on the x-axis as I wished. The note about #N/A is valuable - I didn't know that one. It's also okay to just leave the cell blank if it's not causing you any trouble. -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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How do I plot date against time?
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
cmccloskey56 said: Del, thanks! I import data every day, so leaving a header *off* is just so foreign to me that it felt just so wrong... Me too, that's why I always put the header back in afterwards :-) -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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How do I plot date against time?
Deleting the HEADER was my first point. Did you try it?
-- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "cmccloskey56" wrote in message ... Bravo! So simple! Why did deleting that header work its magic? Doesn't matter, it worked and I got what I wanted. Thanks, all! "David Biddulph" wrote: If you have deleted the header from your date column, and you now select the range including the 3 columns (date and 2 sets of time) + the headers for the two time columns (with the top left cell of this range being the blank where you deleted the header of the date column), you should now be able to Insert/ Chart/ XY again, and this time it should give the chart as you want it. An alternative, working from your existing chart with the 2 series, is to edit the Source Data and adjust the X axis series for each of your 2 series to show your date series. The other thing to check, of course, is that you actually do have dates in your cells in the date series, & not text. -- David Biddulph "cmccloskey56" wrote in message ... How does this help me? I lose the date dimension, and seemingly plot one time against another. I want to see two points (lines/series) for each date, with date as the x-axis and time as the y-axis and two series plotted as different colors (rise and set). Somehow I got a chart to show the two time series on the y-axis, I just wasn't able to get the date on the x-axis as I wished. The note about #N/A is valuable - I didn't know that one. "Bernard Liengme" wrote: 1) You have column headers: Date, Rise, Set. Delete the first one )Date) and make the chart. Excel will now treat the first column as the x-values rather than the first y-value series. 2) Replace the blank by =NA() which displays as #N/A. The chart engine will ignore this point best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "cmccloskey56" wrote in message ... I want to plot date against time. I have dates, the moonrise and moonset times. I would like the date on the horizontal axis and a time scale on the vertical axis, plotting the time of the moonrise and moonset as two different series. The data looks like this: Date Rise Set 10/01/07 21:03 12:05 10/02/07 22:06 13:09 10/03/07 23:14 14:01 10/04/07 14:43 10/05/07 0:23 15:16 10/06/07 1:31 15:43 ... (sometimes rise/set are blank because the moon rose on the previous day; there was no moonrise on a specific date) I understand that the preferred format is an XY chart (lines)? When I do it this way I get THREE series, of rise, set AND date. Here are my questions: 1. How do I get the date back on the horizontal axis? 2. How do I get Time displayes on the vertical axis in more intervals, preferably by hour? I am using Excel 2007. Thanks for your help! Colleen |
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