GIVEN A SCATTER PLOT WITH THE X-AXIS AS DATES, TRYING THO ALTER THE
START/STOP DATES IN THE OPTIONS BOX IS PROBLEMMATIC. iT WILL not ACCEPT A
DATE, BUT ONLY A SERIAL NUMBER. It should DISPLAT the start/stop dates as
dates anot serial numbers. At the least, it ought to make the conversion
autonomously. HELP!!!!

Don't use all caps.

In Excel versions up to 2003, this is not a problem, so I presume you are
using 2007. If SP1 is installed it should also not be a problem. I did have
some issues with this recently, though, and discovered if I applied a date
type of number format to the axis tick labels first, Excel was much happier
accepting dates in the XY chart axis scale entry boxes.

- Jon
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"Keith Reiss" <Keith wrote in message
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GIVEN A SCATTER PLOT WITH THE X-AXIS AS DATES, TRYING THO ALTER THE
START/STOP DATES IN THE OPTIONS BOX IS PROBLEMMATIC. iT WILL not ACCEPT A
DATE, BUT ONLY A SERIAL NUMBER. It should DISPLAT the start/stop dates as
dates anot serial numbers. At the least, it ought to make the conversion
autonomously. HELP!!!!