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Leap Year
I often chart data that spans several years and I haven't found a
method to have the x axis (date) accommodate leap years so the grid will correspond to Jan 1 in each year. These charts are always XY charts. So far I have just selected 365 as the major unit and lived with it. It would seem a logical chart option for XY charts would include months or years rather than a specific number of days. Is that feature available in a spot I haven't found yet? I'm using Excel 2002. Thanks -- -Ralph Page remove pants to reply by email |
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Leap Year
To properly capture the leap year, I would suggest using modifying the chart
to a Line chart as opposed to an XY Scatter chart as Line charts give you much more control over the dates. By combining chart types, you can incorporate the XY chart with the Line chart to give you the features of both. Below are some references that address the differences between XY Scatter charts and Line charts . . . the major difference is how they treat the data on the X Axis. http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/p...cle.asp?ID=190 http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ChartsH...ValueAxis.html -- John Mansfield http://cellmatrix.net "Ralph Page" wrote: I often chart data that spans several years and I haven't found a method to have the x axis (date) accommodate leap years so the grid will correspond to Jan 1 in each year. These charts are always XY charts. So far I have just selected 365 as the major unit and lived with it. It would seem a logical chart option for XY charts would include months or years rather than a specific number of days. Is that feature available in a spot I haven't found yet? I'm using Excel 2002. Thanks -- -Ralph Page remove pants to reply by email |
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Leap Year
To follow up, use Days as the X axis base unit, use some number of months or
1 year as the major unit, and use 1-Jan-SomeYear as the minimum. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "John Mansfield" wrote in message ... To properly capture the leap year, I would suggest using modifying the chart to a Line chart as opposed to an XY Scatter chart as Line charts give you much more control over the dates. By combining chart types, you can incorporate the XY chart with the Line chart to give you the features of both. Below are some references that address the differences between XY Scatter charts and Line charts . . . the major difference is how they treat the data on the X Axis. http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/p...cle.asp?ID=190 http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ChartsH...ValueAxis.html -- John Mansfield http://cellmatrix.net "Ralph Page" wrote: I often chart data that spans several years and I haven't found a method to have the x axis (date) accommodate leap years so the grid will correspond to Jan 1 in each year. These charts are always XY charts. So far I have just selected 365 as the major unit and lived with it. It would seem a logical chart option for XY charts would include months or years rather than a specific number of days. Is that feature available in a spot I haven't found yet? I'm using Excel 2002. Thanks -- -Ralph Page remove pants to reply by email |
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Thanks to Jon and John.
I reviewed the information on the links. I converted the graph to a line graph and used the units suggested and it appears to work fine. -- -Ralph Page remove pants to reply by email |
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