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Can I have more than 255 characters in Chart "Values" of Excel 2k?
Basically put, when I'm trying to graph specific values from a very large and
complex spreadsheet, I can't use all the cells I need to use because the X Values: and Y Values: are truncated at 255 characters. Is there any sort of fix for this? |
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Excel has a specification limit of 255 data series in a chart
Not sure I could read with much more than 10! -- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "Lloyd Benson" <Lloyd wrote in message ... Basically put, when I'm trying to graph specific values from a very large and complex spreadsheet, I can't use all the cells I need to use because the X Values: and Y Values: are truncated at 255 characters. Is there any sort of fix for this? |
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Well, I'm only have 10 data series, but the values are spread out, so I have
to pick and choose individual cells for points. I can't sort because some data points are used in multiple series. For example, my first few (out of over 400) values a LA, LB, MA, MC, MF, UA LA, LB, MC, MD, UA, UB LA, MA, MD, ME, MF LB LB LB, MA, MC LB, MA, MC, MD So if I want to graph everything with MA, then I have to manually select the first, third, sixth, and seventh cells in a column. This leads to the X Values and Y Values to look something like this: Sheet1!$T$3,Sheet1!$T$5,Sheet1!$T$8,Sheet1!$T$10:$ T$11,Sheet1!$T$26:$T$31,Sheet1!$T$33,Sheet1!$T$36, Sheet1!$T$38,Sheet1!$T$54:$T$62,Sheet1!$T$69,Sheet 1!$T$90:$T$93,Sheet1!$T$98:$T$104,Sheet1!$T$109,Sh eet1!$T$117:$T$119,Sheet1!$T$122:$T$127,Sheet1!$T$ 131 And they get truncated before I'm done with values. I did get around it by having multiple worksheets named: LA, LB, MA, MB, etc. but then if I change anything on the master sheet, I have to change it on other sheets, unless there is a way to dynamically link everything, which there probably is, but this is still becomming quite a headache. "Bernard Liengme" wrote: Excel has a specification limit of 255 data series in a chart Not sure I could read with much more than 10! -- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "Lloyd Benson" <Lloyd wrote in message ... Basically put, when I'm trying to graph specific values from a very large and complex spreadsheet, I can't use all the cells I need to use because the X Values: and Y Values: are truncated at 255 characters. Is there any sort of fix for this? |
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The solution is to somehow construct a consolidation range which has the
relevant data in a contiguous range of cells. Formulas, sorting, pivot tables, whatever. You might even need to make multiple copies of your source data, just to get out what you need. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ Lloyd Benson wrote: Well, I'm only have 10 data series, but the values are spread out, so I have to pick and choose individual cells for points. I can't sort because some data points are used in multiple series. For example, my first few (out of over 400) values a LA, LB, MA, MC, MF, UA LA, LB, MC, MD, UA, UB LA, MA, MD, ME, MF LB LB LB, MA, MC LB, MA, MC, MD So if I want to graph everything with MA, then I have to manually select the first, third, sixth, and seventh cells in a column. This leads to the X Values and Y Values to look something like this: Sheet1!$T$3,Sheet1!$T$5,Sheet1!$T$8,Sheet1!$T$10:$ T$11,Sheet1!$T$26:$T$31,Sheet1!$T$33,Sheet1!$T$36, Sheet1!$T$38,Sheet1!$T$54:$T$62,Sheet1!$T$69,Sheet 1!$T$90:$T$93,Sheet1!$T$98:$T$104,Sheet1!$T$109,Sh eet1!$T$117:$T$119,Sheet1!$T$122:$T$127,Sheet1!$T$ 131 And they get truncated before I'm done with values. I did get around it by having multiple worksheets named: LA, LB, MA, MB, etc. but then if I change anything on the master sheet, I have to change it on other sheets, unless there is a way to dynamically link everything, which there probably is, but this is still becomming quite a headache. "Bernard Liengme" wrote: Excel has a specification limit of 255 data series in a chart Not sure I could read with much more than 10! -- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "Lloyd Benson" <Lloyd wrote in message ... Basically put, when I'm trying to graph specific values from a very large and complex spreadsheet, I can't use all the cells I need to use because the X Values: and Y Values: are truncated at 255 characters. Is there any sort of fix for this? |
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