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Time(X) Axis Scale in 97
Hello,
I am using Excel 97. I updated a line chart by one cell. My x axis was previously a Time (x) axis scale, showing ticks every 6 months: 1/00, 7/00, 1/01, etc. When I add one cell to the Source Data, Series, Category (x) axis label (to match the additional one cell value in the Values box above it), it throws my whole x axis off, changing it to every 3 months. When I double click on this x axis, I then see the menu Category (x) axis scale, and cannot get back to the Time (x) axis scale menu. How do I get back to the Time (x) axis scale menu? Thank you in advance for helping me on a Friday afternoon!!! |
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Hi Mary,
We are now in 2008, Excel 97 came out in 1996, I don't expect many of us have this version on our machines, there are just soooo..... many enhancements since then. But you can try something like this, I can't test for the reason mentioned above, with the chart selected choose Chart, Chart Options, and click the Axis tab and see if you can set the axis back to timescale. No guarentees though... -- Cheers, Shane Devenshire "Mary" wrote: Hello, I am using Excel 97. I updated a line chart by one cell. My x axis was previously a Time (x) axis scale, showing ticks every 6 months: 1/00, 7/00, 1/01, etc. When I add one cell to the Source Data, Series, Category (x) axis label (to match the additional one cell value in the Values box above it), it throws my whole x axis off, changing it to every 3 months. When I double click on this x axis, I then see the menu Category (x) axis scale, and cannot get back to the Time (x) axis scale menu. How do I get back to the Time (x) axis scale menu? Thank you in advance for helping me on a Friday afternoon!!! |
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I doubt the version has anything to do with it. Excel 97 and Excel 2003 are
much more alike than Excel 2003 and Excel 2007, and in any case, my initial response is the same. I suspect that the added cell is not a true numerical date, but text that appears as a date to us humans, and which Excel interprets as text. This prevents Excel from properly treating the cell as a date. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "ShaneDevenshire" wrote in message ... Hi Mary, We are now in 2008, Excel 97 came out in 1996, I don't expect many of us have this version on our machines, there are just soooo..... many enhancements since then. But you can try something like this, I can't test for the reason mentioned above, with the chart selected choose Chart, Chart Options, and click the Axis tab and see if you can set the axis back to timescale. No guarentees though... -- Cheers, Shane Devenshire "Mary" wrote: Hello, I am using Excel 97. I updated a line chart by one cell. My x axis was previously a Time (x) axis scale, showing ticks every 6 months: 1/00, 7/00, 1/01, etc. When I add one cell to the Source Data, Series, Category (x) axis label (to match the additional one cell value in the Values box above it), it throws my whole x axis off, changing it to every 3 months. When I double click on this x axis, I then see the menu Category (x) axis scale, and cannot get back to the Time (x) axis scale menu. How do I get back to the Time (x) axis scale menu? Thank you in advance for helping me on a Friday afternoon!!! |
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Hay Jon,
Don't you have anything better to do on a Friday night? My excuse is I'm married. Speaking of marriage, Marsha, who I think you met at the last Summit, is waiting for the next one, she likes the parties, and dinners out. -- Cheers, Shane Devenshire "Jon Peltier" wrote: I doubt the version has anything to do with it. Excel 97 and Excel 2003 are much more alike than Excel 2003 and Excel 2007, and in any case, my initial response is the same. I suspect that the added cell is not a true numerical date, but text that appears as a date to us humans, and which Excel interprets as text. This prevents Excel from properly treating the cell as a date. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "ShaneDevenshire" wrote in message ... Hi Mary, We are now in 2008, Excel 97 came out in 1996, I don't expect many of us have this version on our machines, there are just soooo..... many enhancements since then. But you can try something like this, I can't test for the reason mentioned above, with the chart selected choose Chart, Chart Options, and click the Axis tab and see if you can set the axis back to timescale. No guarentees though... -- Cheers, Shane Devenshire "Mary" wrote: Hello, I am using Excel 97. I updated a line chart by one cell. My x axis was previously a Time (x) axis scale, showing ticks every 6 months: 1/00, 7/00, 1/01, etc. When I add one cell to the Source Data, Series, Category (x) axis label (to match the additional one cell value in the Values box above it), it throws my whole x axis off, changing it to every 3 months. When I double click on this x axis, I then see the menu Category (x) axis scale, and cannot get back to the Time (x) axis scale menu. How do I get back to the Time (x) axis scale menu? Thank you in advance for helping me on a Friday afternoon!!! |
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
ShaneDevenshire said: We are now in 2008, Excel 97 came out in 1996, I don't expect many of us have this version on our machines, there are just soooo..... many enhancements since then. I have Excel 97, and there isn't a graph available in 2003 or 2007 I haven't been able to make so far. And there are some data graphics I can do in 97 you can't do in 2007, like thematic maps (they eventually removed the dog-in-a-manger app from Excel and now sell a standalone Maps product). Which is a bit of an indictment of Microsoft's development of Charting: they should be offering dot plots and panel charts by now at the very least, instead of messing with art department effects. A dot plot is only to a Line Chart what a Bar Chart is to a Column chart, for heaven's sake. In fact they should be offering all their category X axis chart types in sideways form as a standard option, area charts as well. Maybe they ought to think about a standalone graphing application they can charge extra for? In an ideal world, the logical thing would be for a third party company to develop such a product, but the MS giant has a chilling effect: nobody wants to prove the market only to have MS say "thanks, we'll take that now". -- 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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I've got pretty much the same excuse, but with kids. After running around
all day, it often isn't until evenings when I can concentrate on work. I solved a bunch of issues I was having with one project last night, then spent an hour on the newsgroups. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "ShaneDevenshire" wrote in message ... Hay Jon, Don't you have anything better to do on a Friday night? My excuse is I'm married. Speaking of marriage, Marsha, who I think you met at the last Summit, is waiting for the next one, she likes the parties, and dinners out. -- Cheers, Shane Devenshire "Jon Peltier" wrote: I doubt the version has anything to do with it. Excel 97 and Excel 2003 are much more alike than Excel 2003 and Excel 2007, and in any case, my initial response is the same. I suspect that the added cell is not a true numerical date, but text that appears as a date to us humans, and which Excel interprets as text. This prevents Excel from properly treating the cell as a date. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "ShaneDevenshire" wrote in message ... Hi Mary, We are now in 2008, Excel 97 came out in 1996, I don't expect many of us have this version on our machines, there are just soooo..... many enhancements since then. But you can try something like this, I can't test for the reason mentioned above, with the chart selected choose Chart, Chart Options, and click the Axis tab and see if you can set the axis back to timescale. No guarentees though... -- Cheers, Shane Devenshire "Mary" wrote: Hello, I am using Excel 97. I updated a line chart by one cell. My x axis was previously a Time (x) axis scale, showing ticks every 6 months: 1/00, 7/00, 1/01, etc. When I add one cell to the Source Data, Series, Category (x) axis label (to match the additional one cell value in the Values box above it), it throws my whole x axis off, changing it to every 3 months. When I double click on this x axis, I then see the menu Category (x) axis scale, and cannot get back to the Time (x) axis scale menu. How do I get back to the Time (x) axis scale menu? Thank you in advance for helping me on a Friday afternoon!!! |
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