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2007 line chart, can't make some gridlines heavier than others
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I had a nice line chart in 2003 with two lines, one for Planned and one for Actual. Across the bottom axis I had years, e.g. 2006, 2007, etc. These years were major gridlines formatted in heavy black and ran vertically. Up the left vertical axis was percent. The reports come in quarterly, therefore, between each yearly heavy gridline, there were 4 quarterly gridlines. So every 4th gridline was heavy black (representing the start of each year), and in between were 3 quarterly gridlines that were light black. The difference between the heavy annual lines with the 3 lighter gridlines in between made it very easy to see where each new year began. In Excel 2007, I cannot figure out how to do this. When I save from 2003 to 2007, this is lost, all gridlines have the same heaviness. I've spent hours googling, and reading the helps but cannot figure out how to do this in 2007. Is there a way to have both heavy and light vertical gridlines in 2007, or is this feature lost? I'd sure appreciate any help you can offer. Harold |
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Hi Harold try this out in EXCEL 2007.
I think you should be able to get what you want or close to it. I have run up your chart in 2007 and have paid particular attention to the horizontal axis which is what I am addressing here. 1. Click in your chart / ChartTools / Layout / Axes group / Gridlines / Primary Vertical Gridlines / Major & Minor Gridlines - turn these on. 2. Still in ChartTools / Layout / Current Selection group / make sure that Horizontal (Category Axis) in the Chart Element box (the one with a drop down arrow in it) is selected. Format Selection / Format Axis window should launch / in here set as follows in the Axis Options on the right hand side:- - set Major unit: to Fixed 3 - set the Minor unit: to Fixed 1 Doing this will get you close to what you want. I have saved off a copy of my Workbook is you want it. Please hit Yes if my comments have helped. Thanks. "Harold Good" wrote: Hi, I had a nice line chart in 2003 with two lines, one for Planned and one for Actual. Across the bottom axis I had years, e.g. 2006, 2007, etc. These years were major gridlines formatted in heavy black and ran vertically. Up the left vertical axis was percent. The reports come in quarterly, therefore, between each yearly heavy gridline, there were 4 quarterly gridlines. So every 4th gridline was heavy black (representing the start of each year), and in between were 3 quarterly gridlines that were light black. The difference between the heavy annual lines with the 3 lighter gridlines in between made it very easy to see where each new year began. In Excel 2007, I cannot figure out how to do this. When I save from 2003 to 2007, this is lost, all gridlines have the same heaviness. I've spent hours googling, and reading the helps but cannot figure out how to do this in 2007. Is there a way to have both heavy and light vertical gridlines in 2007, or is this feature lost? I'd sure appreciate any help you can offer. Harold . |
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Sorry, Harold, I have just had one other thought after re-reading your
posting. You say you don't want a scatter chart; fine; but what about doing it as a scatter chart (so that you can see the major unit / minor unit settings you are not seeing at the moment) then select the chart (specifically a point on it) / right click / select Change Series Chart Type / then change to Line Chart from there. I am hoping that this might enable you to see the options that you are not currently seeing. Good luck! "Harold Good" wrote: Hi and thanks for your kind attempt to help. If yours is indeed a line chart, I'd appreciate if you could email it to me at . As I carefully followed your instructions below I became aware of something I'd been concluding previously from other searches - when I get to the last part where you mention Major unit and Minor unit, mine does not show those options. I suppose this is why I've been banging my head for so long on this. Now you've confirmed that you see them and I don't. So I searched a bit more and found a post by Andy Pope to someone who had the opposite problem I'm having. Andy stated that their chart might be a scatter chart instead of a line chart. I do want a line chart, but I changed my type to Scatter chart, and then the Major and Minor options appeared as you state below. By going to Fixed 4 and Fixed 1, I got exactly what I wanted for the gridlines. But I don't want a scatter chart! When I go back to line chart those options that I need disappear and instead become "Interval between tick marks:" and "Interval between labels:". These aren't what I need for my line chart. It worked perfectly in 2003, now in 2007 MS has managed to mess it up. Any way I can make those Major and Minor options appear for my line chart? Thanks so much, Harold ======================= trip_to_tokyo wrote: Hi Harold try this out in EXCEL 2007. I think you should be able to get what you want or close to it. I have run up your chart in 2007 and have paid particular attention to the horizontal axis which is what I am addressing here. 1. Click in your chart / ChartTools / Layout / Axes group / Gridlines / Primary Vertical Gridlines / Major & Minor Gridlines - turn these on. 2. Still in ChartTools / Layout / Current Selection group / make sure that Horizontal (Category Axis) in the Chart Element box (the one with a drop down arrow in it) is selected. Format Selection / Format Axis window should launch / in here set as follows in the Axis Options on the right hand side:- - set Major unit: to Fixed 3 - set the Minor unit: to Fixed 1 Doing this will get you close to what you want. I have saved off a copy of my Workbook is you want it. Please hit Yes if my comments have helped. Thanks. "Harold Good" wrote: Hi, I had a nice line chart in 2003 with two lines, one for Planned and one for Actual. Across the bottom axis I had years, e.g. 2006, 2007, etc. These years were major gridlines formatted in heavy black and ran vertically. Up the left vertical axis was percent. The reports come in quarterly, therefore, between each yearly heavy gridline, there were 4 quarterly gridlines. So every 4th gridline was heavy black (representing the start of each year), and in between were 3 quarterly gridlines that were light black. The difference between the heavy annual lines with the 3 lighter gridlines in between made it very easy to see where each new year began. In Excel 2007, I cannot figure out how to do this. When I save from 2003 to 2007, this is lost, all gridlines have the same heaviness. I've spent hours googling, and reading the helps but cannot figure out how to do this in 2007. Is there a way to have both heavy and light vertical gridlines in 2007, or is this feature lost? I'd sure appreciate any help you can offer. Harold . . |
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2007 line chart, can't make some gridlines heavier than others
Hi, I'm looking for it. I only see up to 54. There is no 55 yet.
I'll keep checking back, maybe it takes awhile to show up. What you have posted, is it a line chart or scatter? Harold trip_to_tokyo wrote: Hi Harold. I have just put up my file for you at:- http://www.pierrefondes.com/ It is item number 55 towards the top of my home page. Apologies for not putting it up earlier. I am not sure, at the moment anyway, why you are not seeing the options that I am. Let me think about this further and, if I think of anything, I will post back. Maybe others can come up with something on this point? It's a pleasure to help. Please hit Yes if my comments have helped. Thanks! "Harold Good" wrote: Hi and thanks for your kind attempt to help. If yours is indeed a line chart, I'd appreciate if you could email it to me at . As I carefully followed your instructions below I became aware of something I'd been concluding previously from other searches - when I get to the last part where you mention Major unit and Minor unit, mine does not show those options. I suppose this is why I've been banging my head for so long on this. Now you've confirmed that you see them and I don't. So I searched a bit more and found a post by Andy Pope to someone who had the opposite problem I'm having. Andy stated that their chart might be a scatter chart instead of a line chart. I do want a line chart, but I changed my type to Scatter chart, and then the Major and Minor options appeared as you state below. By going to Fixed 4 and Fixed 1, I got exactly what I wanted for the gridlines. But I don't want a scatter chart! When I go back to line chart those options that I need disappear and instead become "Interval between tick marks:" and "Interval between labels:". These aren't what I need for my line chart. It worked perfectly in 2003, now in 2007 MS has managed to mess it up. Any way I can make those Major and Minor options appear for my line chart? Thanks so much, Harold ======================= trip_to_tokyo wrote: Hi Harold try this out in EXCEL 2007. I think you should be able to get what you want or close to it. I have run up your chart in 2007 and have paid particular attention to the horizontal axis which is what I am addressing here. 1. Click in your chart / ChartTools / Layout / Axes group / Gridlines / Primary Vertical Gridlines / Major & Minor Gridlines - turn these on. 2. Still in ChartTools / Layout / Current Selection group / make sure that Horizontal (Category Axis) in the Chart Element box (the one with a drop down arrow in it) is selected. Format Selection / Format Axis window should launch / in here set as follows in the Axis Options on the right hand side:- - set Major unit: to Fixed 3 - set the Minor unit: to Fixed 1 Doing this will get you close to what you want. I have saved off a copy of my Workbook is you want it. Please hit Yes if my comments have helped. Thanks. "Harold Good" wrote: Hi, I had a nice line chart in 2003 with two lines, one for Planned and one for Actual. Across the bottom axis I had years, e.g. 2006, 2007, etc. These years were major gridlines formatted in heavy black and ran vertically. Up the left vertical axis was percent. The reports come in quarterly, therefore, between each yearly heavy gridline, there were 4 quarterly gridlines. So every 4th gridline was heavy black (representing the start of each year), and in between were 3 quarterly gridlines that were light black. The difference between the heavy annual lines with the 3 lighter gridlines in between made it very easy to see where each new year began. In Excel 2007, I cannot figure out how to do this. When I save from 2003 to 2007, this is lost, all gridlines have the same heaviness. I've spent hours googling, and reading the helps but cannot figure out how to do this in 2007. Is there a way to have both heavy and light vertical gridlines in 2007, or is this feature lost? I'd sure appreciate any help you can offer. Harold . . |
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2007 line chart, can't make some gridlines heavier than others
Hi, this is the conclusion I came to too, go with the scatter chart. But
now I'm having problems with it not showing my labels on the x axis. They showed fine on the Line chart. They are simply years, 2006, 2007, etc (yes, they are numbers, not text), but I can't get them to show on this scatter chart. So this is what I'm wasting my time on now. Presently it just shows sequential numbers. Thanks again for your help, Harold trip_to_tokyo wrote: Sorry, Harold, I have just had one other thought after re-reading your posting. You say you don't want a scatter chart; fine; but what about doing it as a scatter chart (so that you can see the major unit / minor unit settings you are not seeing at the moment) then select the chart (specifically a point on it) / right click / select Change Series Chart Type / then change to Line Chart from there. I am hoping that this might enable you to see the options that you are not currently seeing. Good luck! "Harold Good" wrote: Hi and thanks for your kind attempt to help. If yours is indeed a line chart, I'd appreciate if you could email it to me at . As I carefully followed your instructions below I became aware of something I'd been concluding previously from other searches - when I get to the last part where you mention Major unit and Minor unit, mine does not show those options. I suppose this is why I've been banging my head for so long on this. Now you've confirmed that you see them and I don't. So I searched a bit more and found a post by Andy Pope to someone who had the opposite problem I'm having. Andy stated that their chart might be a scatter chart instead of a line chart. I do want a line chart, but I changed my type to Scatter chart, and then the Major and Minor options appeared as you state below. By going to Fixed 4 and Fixed 1, I got exactly what I wanted for the gridlines. But I don't want a scatter chart! When I go back to line chart those options that I need disappear and instead become "Interval between tick marks:" and "Interval between labels:". These aren't what I need for my line chart. It worked perfectly in 2003, now in 2007 MS has managed to mess it up. Any way I can make those Major and Minor options appear for my line chart? Thanks so much, Harold ======================= trip_to_tokyo wrote: Hi Harold try this out in EXCEL 2007. I think you should be able to get what you want or close to it. I have run up your chart in 2007 and have paid particular attention to the horizontal axis which is what I am addressing here. 1. Click in your chart / ChartTools / Layout / Axes group / Gridlines / Primary Vertical Gridlines / Major & Minor Gridlines - turn these on. 2. Still in ChartTools / Layout / Current Selection group / make sure that Horizontal (Category Axis) in the Chart Element box (the one with a drop down arrow in it) is selected. Format Selection / Format Axis window should launch / in here set as follows in the Axis Options on the right hand side:- - set Major unit: to Fixed 3 - set the Minor unit: to Fixed 1 Doing this will get you close to what you want. I have saved off a copy of my Workbook is you want it. Please hit Yes if my comments have helped. Thanks. "Harold Good" wrote: Hi, I had a nice line chart in 2003 with two lines, one for Planned and one for Actual. Across the bottom axis I had years, e.g. 2006, 2007, etc. These years were major gridlines formatted in heavy black and ran vertically. Up the left vertical axis was percent. The reports come in quarterly, therefore, between each yearly heavy gridline, there were 4 quarterly gridlines. So every 4th gridline was heavy black (representing the start of each year), and in between were 3 quarterly gridlines that were light black. The difference between the heavy annual lines with the 3 lighter gridlines in between made it very easy to see where each new year began. In Excel 2007, I cannot figure out how to do this. When I save from 2003 to 2007, this is lost, all gridlines have the same heaviness. I've spent hours googling, and reading the helps but cannot figure out how to do this in 2007. Is there a way to have both heavy and light vertical gridlines in 2007, or is this feature lost? I'd sure appreciate any help you can offer. Harold . . |
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2007 line chart, can't make some gridlines heavier than others
Just playing around with this a little more to see if I can discover why you
are not seeing the Major unit: Minor unit: settings. What follows is done in reference to the file that I have put up on my website: that way we have a single point of reference. 1. Click anywhere in the chart to highlight it. 2. ChartTools / Layout / Current Selection group / change the Chart Element box (the one with the drop down arrow in it) to:- Horizontal (Category) Axis Minor Gridlines 3. Now click on the horizontal axis itself. I clicked on the text 01-Apr-06. This will place a box around the axis. 4. Now go back to the Current Selection group and select Format Selection. 5. The Format Axis window should open (defaulting to Axis Options) and I think that Major unit: and Minor unit: settings will now be visible. Good luck! "Harold Good" wrote: Hi, I had a nice line chart in 2003 with two lines, one for Planned and one for Actual. Across the bottom axis I had years, e.g. 2006, 2007, etc. These years were major gridlines formatted in heavy black and ran vertically. Up the left vertical axis was percent. The reports come in quarterly, therefore, between each yearly heavy gridline, there were 4 quarterly gridlines. So every 4th gridline was heavy black (representing the start of each year), and in between were 3 quarterly gridlines that were light black. The difference between the heavy annual lines with the 3 lighter gridlines in between made it very easy to see where each new year began. In Excel 2007, I cannot figure out how to do this. When I save from 2003 to 2007, this is lost, all gridlines have the same heaviness. I've spent hours googling, and reading the helps but cannot figure out how to do this in 2007. Is there a way to have both heavy and light vertical gridlines in 2007, or is this feature lost? I'd sure appreciate any help you can offer. Harold . |
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2007 line chart, can't make some gridlines heavier than others
Hi, okay, I've downloaded it now. This is very interesting in the
options that you have, that I don't have. You had it as a stacked line chart, but I changed it to regular line chart and you still have the Major unit and Minor unit options that I don't have on mine. I'm going to tinker with my data labels and see if that might determine which options appear. I never realized how the options that appear are so dependent on the chart type, and maybe label type too. This is what I'll focus on now. This gets me going down a hopeful track. Thanks so much. I'm using Thunderbird to download these messages but I guess I have to go online to click helpful, Yes. Very. Thanks again, Harold trip_to_tokyo wrote: Hi Harold. I have just put up my file for you at:- http://www.pierrefondes.com/ It is item number 55 towards the top of my home page. Apologies for not putting it up earlier. I am not sure, at the moment anyway, why you are not seeing the options that I am. Let me think about this further and, if I think of anything, I will post back. Maybe others can come up with something on this point? It's a pleasure to help. Please hit Yes if my comments have helped. Thanks! "Harold Good" wrote: Hi and thanks for your kind attempt to help. If yours is indeed a line chart, I'd appreciate if you could email it to me at . As I carefully followed your instructions below I became aware of something I'd been concluding previously from other searches - when I get to the last part where you mention Major unit and Minor unit, mine does not show those options. I suppose this is why I've been banging my head for so long on this. Now you've confirmed that you see them and I don't. So I searched a bit more and found a post by Andy Pope to someone who had the opposite problem I'm having. Andy stated that their chart might be a scatter chart instead of a line chart. I do want a line chart, but I changed my type to Scatter chart, and then the Major and Minor options appeared as you state below. By going to Fixed 4 and Fixed 1, I got exactly what I wanted for the gridlines. But I don't want a scatter chart! When I go back to line chart those options that I need disappear and instead become "Interval between tick marks:" and "Interval between labels:". These aren't what I need for my line chart. It worked perfectly in 2003, now in 2007 MS has managed to mess it up. Any way I can make those Major and Minor options appear for my line chart? Thanks so much, Harold ======================= trip_to_tokyo wrote: Hi Harold try this out in EXCEL 2007. I think you should be able to get what you want or close to it. I have run up your chart in 2007 and have paid particular attention to the horizontal axis which is what I am addressing here. 1. Click in your chart / ChartTools / Layout / Axes group / Gridlines / Primary Vertical Gridlines / Major & Minor Gridlines - turn these on. 2. Still in ChartTools / Layout / Current Selection group / make sure that Horizontal (Category Axis) in the Chart Element box (the one with a drop down arrow in it) is selected. Format Selection / Format Axis window should launch / in here set as follows in the Axis Options on the right hand side:- - set Major unit: to Fixed 3 - set the Minor unit: to Fixed 1 Doing this will get you close to what you want. I have saved off a copy of my Workbook is you want it. Please hit Yes if my comments have helped. Thanks. "Harold Good" wrote: Hi, I had a nice line chart in 2003 with two lines, one for Planned and one for Actual. Across the bottom axis I had years, e.g. 2006, 2007, etc. These years were major gridlines formatted in heavy black and ran vertically. Up the left vertical axis was percent. The reports come in quarterly, therefore, between each yearly heavy gridline, there were 4 quarterly gridlines. So every 4th gridline was heavy black (representing the start of each year), and in between were 3 quarterly gridlines that were light black. The difference between the heavy annual lines with the 3 lighter gridlines in between made it very easy to see where each new year began. In Excel 2007, I cannot figure out how to do this. When I save from 2003 to 2007, this is lost, all gridlines have the same heaviness. I've spent hours googling, and reading the helps but cannot figure out how to do this in 2007. Is there a way to have both heavy and light vertical gridlines in 2007, or is this feature lost? I'd sure appreciate any help you can offer. Harold . . |
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2007 line chart, can't make some gridlines heavier than others
55 is there now. I have posted a line chart.
"Harold Good" wrote: Hi, I'm looking for it. I only see up to 54. There is no 55 yet. I'll keep checking back, maybe it takes awhile to show up. What you have posted, is it a line chart or scatter? Harold trip_to_tokyo wrote: Hi Harold. I have just put up my file for you at:- http://www.pierrefondes.com/ It is item number 55 towards the top of my home page. Apologies for not putting it up earlier. I am not sure, at the moment anyway, why you are not seeing the options that I am. Let me think about this further and, if I think of anything, I will post back. Maybe others can come up with something on this point? It's a pleasure to help. Please hit Yes if my comments have helped. Thanks! "Harold Good" wrote: Hi and thanks for your kind attempt to help. If yours is indeed a line chart, I'd appreciate if you could email it to me at . As I carefully followed your instructions below I became aware of something I'd been concluding previously from other searches - when I get to the last part where you mention Major unit and Minor unit, mine does not show those options. I suppose this is why I've been banging my head for so long on this. Now you've confirmed that you see them and I don't. So I searched a bit more and found a post by Andy Pope to someone who had the opposite problem I'm having. Andy stated that their chart might be a scatter chart instead of a line chart. I do want a line chart, but I changed my type to Scatter chart, and then the Major and Minor options appeared as you state below. By going to Fixed 4 and Fixed 1, I got exactly what I wanted for the gridlines. But I don't want a scatter chart! When I go back to line chart those options that I need disappear and instead become "Interval between tick marks:" and "Interval between labels:". These aren't what I need for my line chart. It worked perfectly in 2003, now in 2007 MS has managed to mess it up. Any way I can make those Major and Minor options appear for my line chart? Thanks so much, Harold ======================= trip_to_tokyo wrote: Hi Harold try this out in EXCEL 2007. I think you should be able to get what you want or close to it. I have run up your chart in 2007 and have paid particular attention to the horizontal axis which is what I am addressing here. 1. Click in your chart / ChartTools / Layout / Axes group / Gridlines / Primary Vertical Gridlines / Major & Minor Gridlines - turn these on. 2. Still in ChartTools / Layout / Current Selection group / make sure that Horizontal (Category Axis) in the Chart Element box (the one with a drop down arrow in it) is selected. Format Selection / Format Axis window should launch / in here set as follows in the Axis Options on the right hand side:- - set Major unit: to Fixed 3 - set the Minor unit: to Fixed 1 Doing this will get you close to what you want. I have saved off a copy of my Workbook is you want it. Please hit Yes if my comments have helped. Thanks. "Harold Good" wrote: Hi, I had a nice line chart in 2003 with two lines, one for Planned and one for Actual. Across the bottom axis I had years, e.g. 2006, 2007, etc. These years were major gridlines formatted in heavy black and ran vertically. Up the left vertical axis was percent. The reports come in quarterly, therefore, between each yearly heavy gridline, there were 4 quarterly gridlines. So every 4th gridline was heavy black (representing the start of each year), and in between were 3 quarterly gridlines that were light black. The difference between the heavy annual lines with the 3 lighter gridlines in between made it very easy to see where each new year began. In Excel 2007, I cannot figure out how to do this. When I save from 2003 to 2007, this is lost, all gridlines have the same heaviness. I've spent hours googling, and reading the helps but cannot figure out how to do this in 2007. Is there a way to have both heavy and light vertical gridlines in 2007, or is this feature lost? I'd sure appreciate any help you can offer. Harold . . . |
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2007 line chart, can't make some gridlines heavier than others
"They are simply years, 2006, 2007, etc (yes, they are numbers, not text)"
An X axis on a Line Chart will be expecting text not numbers. I think that it might be helpful if you format these as text not numbers. An X axis on a Scatter Chart will be expecting numbers not text. Type in:- scatter chart - into the F 1 Help Facility. A topic will be displayed called:- Present your data in a scatter chart or a line chart It is a very good article about how EXCEL treats the 2 and the uses of the axes. "Harold Good" wrote: Hi, this is the conclusion I came to too, go with the scatter chart. But now I'm having problems with it not showing my labels on the x axis. They showed fine on the Line chart. They are simply years, 2006, 2007, etc (yes, they are numbers, not text), but I can't get them to show on this scatter chart. So this is what I'm wasting my time on now. Presently it just shows sequential numbers. Thanks again for your help, Harold trip_to_tokyo wrote: Sorry, Harold, I have just had one other thought after re-reading your posting. You say you don't want a scatter chart; fine; but what about doing it as a scatter chart (so that you can see the major unit / minor unit settings you are not seeing at the moment) then select the chart (specifically a point on it) / right click / select Change Series Chart Type / then change to Line Chart from there. I am hoping that this might enable you to see the options that you are not currently seeing. Good luck! "Harold Good" wrote: Hi and thanks for your kind attempt to help. If yours is indeed a line chart, I'd appreciate if you could email it to me at . As I carefully followed your instructions below I became aware of something I'd been concluding previously from other searches - when I get to the last part where you mention Major unit and Minor unit, mine does not show those options. I suppose this is why I've been banging my head for so long on this. Now you've confirmed that you see them and I don't. So I searched a bit more and found a post by Andy Pope to someone who had the opposite problem I'm having. Andy stated that their chart might be a scatter chart instead of a line chart. I do want a line chart, but I changed my type to Scatter chart, and then the Major and Minor options appeared as you state below. By going to Fixed 4 and Fixed 1, I got exactly what I wanted for the gridlines. But I don't want a scatter chart! When I go back to line chart those options that I need disappear and instead become "Interval between tick marks:" and "Interval between labels:". These aren't what I need for my line chart. It worked perfectly in 2003, now in 2007 MS has managed to mess it up. Any way I can make those Major and Minor options appear for my line chart? Thanks so much, Harold ======================= trip_to_tokyo wrote: Hi Harold try this out in EXCEL 2007. I think you should be able to get what you want or close to it. I have run up your chart in 2007 and have paid particular attention to the horizontal axis which is what I am addressing here. 1. Click in your chart / ChartTools / Layout / Axes group / Gridlines / Primary Vertical Gridlines / Major & Minor Gridlines - turn these on. 2. Still in ChartTools / Layout / Current Selection group / make sure that Horizontal (Category Axis) in the Chart Element box (the one with a drop down arrow in it) is selected. Format Selection / Format Axis window should launch / in here set as follows in the Axis Options on the right hand side:- - set Major unit: to Fixed 3 - set the Minor unit: to Fixed 1 Doing this will get you close to what you want. I have saved off a copy of my Workbook is you want it. Please hit Yes if my comments have helped. Thanks. "Harold Good" wrote: Hi, I had a nice line chart in 2003 with two lines, one for Planned and one for Actual. Across the bottom axis I had years, e.g. 2006, 2007, etc. These years were major gridlines formatted in heavy black and ran vertically. Up the left vertical axis was percent. The reports come in quarterly, therefore, between each yearly heavy gridline, there were 4 quarterly gridlines. So every 4th gridline was heavy black (representing the start of each year), and in between were 3 quarterly gridlines that were light black. The difference between the heavy annual lines with the 3 lighter gridlines in between made it very easy to see where each new year began. In Excel 2007, I cannot figure out how to do this. When I save from 2003 to 2007, this is lost, all gridlines have the same heaviness. I've spent hours googling, and reading the helps but cannot figure out how to do this in 2007. Is there a way to have both heavy and light vertical gridlines in 2007, or is this feature lost? I'd sure appreciate any help you can offer. Harold . . . |
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