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John
 
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I have the following data points and want to construct a simple line graph
that will draw a line between data points... ignoring the zeros to make a
curve (see trend line and the polynomial trend to get an idea of what I want
for these data points). Excel will graph only points and the line drops down
to zeros where there is no data... which I don't want it to do. Any Ideas??
THANKS!

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if the cells are really blank got to <tools<options<chart and for current
chart select interpolate.
if the cells are the result of equations with a "" then there is more of a
problem
one way around it is to select the column of data and use <data<autofilter
select non blank.

"John" wrote:

I have the following data points and want to construct a simple line graph
that will draw a line between data points... ignoring the zeros to make a
curve (see trend line and the polynomial trend to get an idea of what I want
for these data points). Excel will graph only points and the line drops down
to zeros where there is no data... which I don't want it to do. Any Ideas??
THANKS!

3 3.53
6 3.8
9
12 3.93
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Jerry W. Lewis
 
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Likely the cells are not really blank, but "". Replace "" with #N/A to
interpolate.

Jerry

John wrote:

I have the following data points and want to construct a simple line graph
that will draw a line between data points... ignoring the zeros to make a
curve (see trend line and the polynomial trend to get an idea of what I want
for these data points). Excel will graph only points and the line drops down
to zeros where there is no data... which I don't want it to do. Any Ideas??
THANKS!

3 3.53
6 3.8
9
12 3.93
15
18
21
24 4.03
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Thanks to both of you!

Cheers

"bj" wrote:

if the cells are really blank got to <tools<options<chart and for current
chart select interpolate.
if the cells are the result of equations with a "" then there is more of a
problem
one way around it is to select the column of data and use <data<autofilter
select non blank.

"John" wrote:

I have the following data points and want to construct a simple line graph
that will draw a line between data points... ignoring the zeros to make a
curve (see trend line and the polynomial trend to get an idea of what I want
for these data points). Excel will graph only points and the line drops down
to zeros where there is no data... which I don't want it to do. Any Ideas??
THANKS!

3 3.53
6 3.8
9
12 3.93
15
18
21
24 4.03
27
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33
36
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45
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You're welcome, glad it helped.

Jerry

John wrote:

Thanks to both of you!

Cheers


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