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Sorry but I must be missing something. I'm with you until "Axis Options", but
under "Axis Options" I don't see anything that says "Axis Type" or anything that gives me the option to have a text axis. Thanks p.s. I am using a scatter chart "Andy Pope" wrote: For xl2007, Select chart and then x axis. CTRL+1 to open Format dialog. Axis Options Axis Type: Text axis Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "sara rovang" wrote in message ... sorry, i should have been more clear, how do i do it in 07? i've been all over the ribbon and can't find the chart options that 03 had, and right clicking doesn't give it to me. "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, You need to set the x axis to be category rather than date. Right click the chart and pick chart options. On the axis tab you can set the axis type to category. Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "sara rovang" <sara wrote in message ... How do i stop a line graph from automatically adding weekend dates? I just want the dates in the data, work days. |
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Hi,
You can not see it because it is not there for scatter chart. It a setting for Line/column/bar/area charts. With a xy scatter the axis is purely numeric. If you want to exclude dates you will need to change to Line chart in order to treat each date as a category. Cheers Andy GR wrote: Sorry but I must be missing something. I'm with you until "Axis Options", but under "Axis Options" I don't see anything that says "Axis Type" or anything that gives me the option to have a text axis. Thanks p.s. I am using a scatter chart "Andy Pope" wrote: For xl2007, Select chart and then x axis. CTRL+1 to open Format dialog. Axis Options Axis Type: Text axis Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "sara rovang" wrote in message ... sorry, i should have been more clear, how do i do it in 07? i've been all over the ribbon and can't find the chart options that 03 had, and right clicking doesn't give it to me. "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, You need to set the x axis to be category rather than date. Right click the chart and pick chart options. On the axis tab you can set the axis type to category. Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "sara rovang" <sara wrote in message ... How do i stop a line graph from automatically adding weekend dates? I just want the dates in the data, work days. -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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Thanks - I changed it to a line chart and that worked.
But I get a different problem when I do that. The range I am referencing for the chart includes a bunch of empty cells at the end of the range (these cells are updated automatically on a daily basis by an application that writes data to the workbook). These aforementioned cells are completely empty; i.e. no formulas or anything. The problem is that the line chart continues to plot the empty values - I only want to plot the data from those cells in the specified range that actually contain values. Can I do this for a line chart? I tried playing around with the "Hidden and Empty Cells" feature under Select Data but this did not resolve the issue - it seems like this feature does not allow you to ignore (i.e. NOT plot) data with empty cells. "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, You can not see it because it is not there for scatter chart. It a setting for Line/column/bar/area charts. With a xy scatter the axis is purely numeric. If you want to exclude dates you will need to change to Line chart in order to treat each date as a category. Cheers Andy GR wrote: Sorry but I must be missing something. I'm with you until "Axis Options", but under "Axis Options" I don't see anything that says "Axis Type" or anything that gives me the option to have a text axis. Thanks p.s. I am using a scatter chart "Andy Pope" wrote: For xl2007, Select chart and then x axis. CTRL+1 to open Format dialog. Axis Options Axis Type: Text axis Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "sara rovang" wrote in message ... sorry, i should have been more clear, how do i do it in 07? i've been all over the ribbon and can't find the chart options that 03 had, and right clicking doesn't give it to me. "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, You need to set the x axis to be category rather than date. Right click the chart and pick chart options. On the axis tab you can set the axis type to category. Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "sara rovang" <sara wrote in message ... How do i stop a line graph from automatically adding weekend dates? I just want the dates in the data, work days. -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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I assume the axis is plotting the labels but the line stops at the empty
cells. In which case you need to adjust the range used for category labels. Either hide those cells manually or with filtering, or use the dynamic chart approach. http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/Dynamics.html Cheers Andy GR wrote: Thanks - I changed it to a line chart and that worked. But I get a different problem when I do that. The range I am referencing for the chart includes a bunch of empty cells at the end of the range (these cells are updated automatically on a daily basis by an application that writes data to the workbook). These aforementioned cells are completely empty; i.e. no formulas or anything. The problem is that the line chart continues to plot the empty values - I only want to plot the data from those cells in the specified range that actually contain values. Can I do this for a line chart? I tried playing around with the "Hidden and Empty Cells" feature under Select Data but this did not resolve the issue - it seems like this feature does not allow you to ignore (i.e. NOT plot) data with empty cells. "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, You can not see it because it is not there for scatter chart. It a setting for Line/column/bar/area charts. With a xy scatter the axis is purely numeric. If you want to exclude dates you will need to change to Line chart in order to treat each date as a category. Cheers Andy GR wrote: Sorry but I must be missing something. I'm with you until "Axis Options", but under "Axis Options" I don't see anything that says "Axis Type" or anything that gives me the option to have a text axis. Thanks p.s. I am using a scatter chart "Andy Pope" wrote: For xl2007, Select chart and then x axis. CTRL+1 to open Format dialog. Axis Options Axis Type: Text axis Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "sara rovang" wrote in message ... sorry, i should have been more clear, how do i do it in 07? i've been all over the ribbon and can't find the chart options that 03 had, and right clicking doesn't give it to me. "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, You need to set the x axis to be category rather than date. Right click the chart and pick chart options. On the axis tab you can set the axis type to category. Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "sara rovang" <sara wrote in message ... How do i stop a line graph from automatically adding weekend dates? I just want the dates in the data, work days. -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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Thanks - solved the problem with a filter
"Andy Pope" wrote: I assume the axis is plotting the labels but the line stops at the empty cells. In which case you need to adjust the range used for category labels. Either hide those cells manually or with filtering, or use the dynamic chart approach. http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/Dynamics.html Cheers Andy GR wrote: Thanks - I changed it to a line chart and that worked. But I get a different problem when I do that. The range I am referencing for the chart includes a bunch of empty cells at the end of the range (these cells are updated automatically on a daily basis by an application that writes data to the workbook). These aforementioned cells are completely empty; i.e. no formulas or anything. The problem is that the line chart continues to plot the empty values - I only want to plot the data from those cells in the specified range that actually contain values. Can I do this for a line chart? I tried playing around with the "Hidden and Empty Cells" feature under Select Data but this did not resolve the issue - it seems like this feature does not allow you to ignore (i.e. NOT plot) data with empty cells. "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, You can not see it because it is not there for scatter chart. It a setting for Line/column/bar/area charts. With a xy scatter the axis is purely numeric. If you want to exclude dates you will need to change to Line chart in order to treat each date as a category. Cheers Andy GR wrote: Sorry but I must be missing something. I'm with you until "Axis Options", but under "Axis Options" I don't see anything that says "Axis Type" or anything that gives me the option to have a text axis. Thanks p.s. I am using a scatter chart "Andy Pope" wrote: For xl2007, Select chart and then x axis. CTRL+1 to open Format dialog. Axis Options Axis Type: Text axis Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "sara rovang" wrote in message ... sorry, i should have been more clear, how do i do it in 07? i've been all over the ribbon and can't find the chart options that 03 had, and right clicking doesn't give it to me. "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, You need to set the x axis to be category rather than date. Right click the chart and pick chart options. On the axis tab you can set the axis type to category. Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "sara rovang" <sara wrote in message ... How do i stop a line graph from automatically adding weekend dates? I just want the dates in the data, work days. -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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