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Struggling to produce INCREDIBLY simple charts with Excel (v2003) - any recommendations?
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Hi I am struggling to produce INCREDIBLY simple charts with Excel (v2003). I am trying to *speed up* (i.e. reduce the number of clicks) to produce a new chart. To save time, I dont want to have to *do* anything to the source data when it arrives. This is partly because we are needing to paste in live data several time a day (i.e. data that is added to/is changed as the day progresses). The data arrives as .CSV and it is one row per transaction e.g. like this: date,time,invoice_num 18/06/2006,01:19,INV10010341 18/06/2006,07:18,INV10010342 18/06/2006,07:31,INV10010343 18/06/2006,08:28,INV10010344 18/06/2006,08:32,INV10010345 18/06/2006,08:32,INV10010346 18/06/2006,08:54,INV10010347 18/06/2006,09:13,INV10010348 |
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Struggling to produce INCREDIBLY simple charts with Excel (v2003) - any recommendations?
What did those nice people at the Excel forum tell you?
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Struggling to produce INCREDIBLY simple charts with Excel (v2003) - any recommendations?
DoobieDo wrote: What did those nice people at the Excel forum tell you? http://216.92.17.166/board2/index.ph...01a4565152a99b I dont know I havent asked them yet. Maybe I shall! Ship Shiperton Henethe |
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Struggling to produce INCREDIBLY simple charts with Excel (v2003) - any recommendations?
To save time, I dont want to have to *do* anything to the source data
when it arrives. Unfortunately your data is not arranged to be easy to make any kind of chart. Your X data is the second column of the imported file, and I think your Y data is derived from the third column. Do you want simply number of transactions at a given time, or a cumulative count? Either way you'll need some analysis, whether by formulas, pivot table, or VBA procedure. You have to provide some numerical values for Excel to plot. I have then added the time column (i.e. the second column - col "B") of each datasheet to be a Data Series for the chart. ..... I would like time to go along the X-axis but Excel puts it on the Y axis! (Why?!) A data series consists of a set of X values and a matching set of Y values. If you add the second column by itself to an existing chart, the only logical thing for Excel to assume is that these are Y values to be charted against the already plotted X values. Plus I cant get the X-axis to start at zero - it seems to insist on starting at 1 (not 0)!! If Excel cannot parse your X values as anything numeric, or if you are making a Line chart (rather than an XY chart), Excel is likely to simply assign the X values as categorical labels, then count them starting with 1 the way young children learn to count. BTW, what are these groups: alt.comp.shareware, alt.www.webmaster? - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com _______ "ship" wrote in message oups.com... Excel2003/WinXP Hi I am struggling to produce INCREDIBLY simple charts with Excel (v2003). I am trying to *speed up* (i.e. reduce the number of clicks) to produce a new chart. To save time, I dont want to have to *do* anything to the source data when it arrives. This is partly because we are needing to paste in live data several time a day (i.e. data that is added to/is changed as the day progresses). The data arrives as .CSV and it is one row per transaction e.g. like this: date,time,invoice_num 18/06/2006,01:19,INV10010341 18/06/2006,07:18,INV10010342 18/06/2006,07:31,INV10010343 18/06/2006,08:28,INV10010344 18/06/2006,08:32,INV10010345 18/06/2006,08:32,INV10010346 18/06/2006,08:54,INV10010347 18/06/2006,09:13,INV10010348 . . etc I have imported each .CSV file into Excel, with one day per worksheet. And I have created a basic Line chart. I have then added the time column (i.e. the second column - col "B") of each datasheet to be a Data Series for the chart. I am trying to chart time vs. number of transactions (within a 24 hour period). And I also need to see more than one day's performance on the same chart. Problem: I would like time to go along the X-axis but Excel puts it on the Y axis! (Why?!) I am also struggling to get the X-axis to be along the BOTTOM, rather then the top of the chart! Plus I cant get the X-axis to start at zero - it seems to insist on starting at 1 (not 0)!! I am on the point of dispair - I dont need anything complex, 3D etc - but I just cant get Excel to do the basics. - Any thoughts? - Are there any Excel charting plug-ins to make life easier? - Or is there something good and cheap (i.e. less than $25.00) that is intuitive that comes highly recommended instead of Excel?! Ship Shiperton Henethe |
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