Setting round numbers for the scale
 

Hi,

My Y-axis scale works out to something like -1.1 to 4.5. The min could be
anything (-1.5, 1.29, -0.98). What happens is that the units displayed are
then started with the base value of the min, and the result is that in most
of the cases, 0 is not one of the ticks. Is there a short-cut wherein we can
ensure that 0 is always one of the ticks, and in the above case the ticks
start from -1 instead of -1.1, and the range starts from -1.1.



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- Mangesh
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Office 2003 & Windows XP

Hi,

How about a work around. Add a dummy data series to the chart and change
its chart type to xy-scatter. Depending on the main chart type set the x
and y value to plot the point on the intersection of the x and y axis.
Format the data marker to be a small cross. Add a data label to display
the y value of zero. Align the data label to the left so it appears as
part of the y axis.

Cheers
Andy

Mangesh Yadav wrote:
Hi,

My Y-axis scale works out to something like -1.1 to 4.5. The min could be
anything (-1.5, 1.29, -0.98). What happens is that the units displayed are
then started with the base value of the min, and the result is that in most
of the cases, 0 is not one of the ticks. Is there a short-cut wherein we can
ensure that 0 is always one of the ticks, and in the above case the ticks
start from -1 instead of -1.1, and the range starts from -1.1.



--
- Mangesh
------------------------------------------
Office 2003 & Windows XP



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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the tip.

Mangesh



"Andy Pope" wrote in message
...
Hi,

How about a work around. Add a dummy data series to the chart and change
its chart type to xy-scatter. Depending on the main chart type set the x
and y value to plot the point on the intersection of the x and y axis.
Format the data marker to be a small cross. Add a data label to display
the y value of zero. Align the data label to the left so it appears as
part of the y axis.

Cheers
Andy

Mangesh Yadav wrote:
Hi,

My Y-axis scale works out to something like -1.1 to 4.5. The min could
be
anything (-1.5, 1.29, -0.98). What happens is that the units displayed
are
then started with the base value of the min, and the result is that in
most
of the cases, 0 is not one of the ticks. Is there a short-cut wherein we
can
ensure that 0 is always one of the ticks, and in the above case the
ticks
start from -1 instead of -1.1, and the range starts from -1.1.



--
- Mangesh
------------------------------------------
Office 2003 & Windows XP



--

Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info