Help . I have been trying and failing to sucessfully plot x , y co
ordinates from worksheet data containing 3 columns One being the name of
the location the next being the x co ords and the final one bieng the y
co ord.
I can not get these simple points to be plotted. I am using x,y
scatter but tried bubble too
Why is this apparently simple task getting the better of me.

Ps the number of records may eventualy exceed 255 points and that seems
to pop up as an issue too


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It would be helpful to know what version of Excel you are using. If it's
excel 2007...

(1) Click the "insert" tab

(2) Click on the "scatter" button in the "Charts" group.

(3) Click a chart type from the drop down menu ie. with/without lines etc.
This will insert an empty chart box onto your sheet.

(4) Right click on the empty chart and click "select data" - this will bring
up the "select data source" window.

(5) In this new window, click the "add" button. This will bring up the "Edit
Series" window with three text boxes.

(6) in the "series name" box, give your data a name - this can be anything,
ie.. fred/data1/mydata etc.

(7) Click on the little "select range" button to the right of the "series x
values" textbox - once the next "edit series" window appears, just highlight
the appropriate x-coordinates from your spreadsheet with the cursor. Excel
will then write the appropriate formula into the textbox. Click the button
with the little red arrow in the "edit series" window to return.

(8) Repeat step 7 for the "series y values" box

(9) Click OK on the "edit series" window

(10) Click OK on the "Select data source" window.

That should be it, you should have a nice x-y plot of your data. Hope this
helps, if it's an earlier version of excel, things look slightly different
but the method is very similar.

"Wobbles" wrote:


Help . I have been trying and failing to sucessfully plot x , y co
ordinates from worksheet data containing 3 columns One being the name of
the location the next being the x co ords and the final one bieng the y
co ord.
I can not get these simple points to be plotted. I am using x,y
scatter but tried bubble too
Why is this apparently simple task getting the better of me.

Ps the number of records may eventualy exceed 255 points and that seems
to pop up as an issue too


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Sorry i am new to this forum and as when i signed up it asked what
versions i was using i thought the information was public knowledge , I
am in fact using excel 2002



:nw)

Climbatized;364313 Wrote:
It would be helpful to know what version of Excel you are using. If
it's
excel 2007...

(1) Click the "insert" tab

(2) Click on the "scatter" button in the "Charts" group.

(3) Click a chart type from the drop down menu ie. with/without lines
etc.
This will insert an empty chart box onto your sheet.

(4) Right click on the empty chart and click "select data" - this will
bring
up the "select data source" window.

(5) In this new window, click the "add" button. This will bring up the
"Edit
Series" window with three text boxes.

(6) in the "series name" box, give your data a name - this can be
anything,
ie.. fred/data1/mydata etc.

(7) Click on the little "select range" button to the right of the
"series x
values" textbox - once the next "edit series" window appears, just
highlight
the appropriate x-coordinates from your spreadsheet with the cursor.
Excel
will then write the appropriate formula into the textbox. Click the
button
with the little red arrow in the "edit series" window to return.

(8) Repeat step 7 for the "series y values" box

(9) Click OK on the "edit series" window

(10) Click OK on the "Select data source" window.

That should be it, you should have a nice x-y plot of your data. Hope
this
helps, if it's an earlier version of excel, things look slightly
different
but the method is very similar.

"Wobbles" wrote:


Help . I have been trying and failing to sucessfully plot x , y co
ordinates from worksheet data containing 3 columns One being the name
of
the location the next being the x co ords and the final one bieng the
y
co ord.
I can not get these simple points to be plotted. I am using x,y
scatter but tried bubble too
Why is this apparently simple task getting the better of me.

Ps the number of records may eventualy exceed 255 points and that
seems
to pop up as an issue too


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Thank you for the explanation of the x y however it does not work, I
have a list of values in on column i am using as x co ords , i have
another list as y co ords and the third columns is names that correspond
to the co ords , when i try to plot it my results are either one
plotted or then all but only on one axis.
Certain areas of the graph could get crowed so my perfect solution
would be to many even go one step further so that hovering or clicking a
point will bring up the name, that is a less important thing than
getting the bleedin things plotted correctly :(




Wobbles;364331 Wrote:
Sorry i am new to this forum and as when i signed up it asked what
versions i was using i thought the information was public knowledge , I
am in fact using excel 2002



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How do you expect the labels to be plotted? Charts plot X values vs Y
values, with one label per series.

You could tediously plot each separate X-Y pair as its own series with its
own series name label, but it will take a long time, and you'll find you
can't have more than 255 such series, as if there is room with all those
labels.

Or you could select the X and Y values together (hopefully your X data is in
a column and the Y data in the next column to the right) and create an XY
chart. Then download one of these free Excel utilities to add the third
column as data labels on the points:

Rob Bovey's Chart Labeler, http://appspro.com/Utilities/ChartLabeler.htm
John Walkenbach's Chart Tools,
http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/files/charttools.htm

- Jon
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http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/
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Two weeks away:

Advanced Excel Conference - June 17-18 2009 - Charting and Programming
http://peltiertech.com/Training/2009...00906ACNJ.html
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Thank you for the explanation of the x y however it does not work, I
have a list of values in on column i am using as x co ords , i have
another list as y co ords and the third columns is names that correspond
to the co ords , when i try to plot it my results are either one
plotted or then all but only on one axis.
Certain areas of the graph could get crowed so my perfect solution
would be to many even go one step further so that hovering or clicking a
point will bring up the name, that is a less important thing than
getting the bleedin things plotted correctly :(




Wobbles;364331 Wrote:
Sorry i am new to this forum and as when i signed up it asked what
versions i was using i thought the information was public knowledge , I
am in fact using excel 2002



:nw)


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Hi thanks again for your reply, The Name labels are less important and i
can live without them. my x co ords are in column n on my sheet and my y
co ords are in column o . I have just tried to do a dummy chart on a
fresh spreadsheet and it works more or less ,but the moment i apply the
same technique to my actual data it fails , the columns n and o are made
from an earlier column in the format NNN/NNN i am using "Left" and
"Right" function to manipulate just the NNN before the / for x and the
NNN after for y . These results columns are formatted as numeric
integers .



Jon Peltier;365153 Wrote:
How do you expect the labels to be plotted? Charts plot X values vs Y
values, with one label per series.

You could tediously plot each separate X-Y pair as its own series with
its
own series name label, but it will take a long time, and you'll find
you
can't have more than 255 such series, as if there is room with all
those
labels.

Or you could select the X and Y values together (hopefully your X data
is in
a column and the Y data in the next column to the right) and create an
XY
chart. Then download one of these free Excel utilities to add the
third
column as data labels on the points:

Rob Bovey's Chart Labeler, 'XY Chart Labeler'
(http://appspro.com/Utilities/ChartLabeler.htm)
John Walkenbach's Chart Tools,
http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/files/charttools.htm

- Jon
-------
Jon Peltier, Peltier Technical Services, Inc.
http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/
_______

Two weeks away:

Advanced Excel Conference - June 17-18 2009 - Charting and Programming
http://tinyurl.com/crqwu6
_______


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Thank you for the explanation of the x y however it does not work, I
have a list of values in on column i am using as x co ords , i have
another list as y co ords and the third columns is names that
correspond
to the co ords , when i try to plot it my results are either one
plotted or then all but only on one axis.
Certain areas of the graph could get crowed so my perfect solution
would be to many even go one step further so that hovering or
clicking a
point will bring up the name, that is a less important thing than
getting the bleedin things plotted correctly :(




Wobbles;364331 Wrote:
Sorry i am new to this forum and as when i signed up it asked what
versions i was using i thought the information was public knowledge
, I
am in fact using excel 2002



:nw)


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Wobbles;364844 Wrote:
Thank you for the explanation of the x y however it does not work, I
have a list of values in on column i am using as x co ords , i have
another list as y co ords and the third columns is names that correspond
to the co ords , when i try to plot it my results are either one
plotted or then all but only on one axis.
Certain areas of the graph could get crowed so my perfect solution
would be to many even go one step further so that hovering or clicking a
point will bring up the name, that is a less important thing than
getting the bleedin things plotted correctly :(


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