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Keep complete date series on X axis
I have data grouped by month, as follows:
Customer Month1 Data1 Data2 .... Customer Month2 Data1 Data2.... ....... ...... ..... ...... I am creating a pivottable & chart to show customer data series, with the months on the X axis. Works well, but when I am displaying a series that does not have data for all months, the absent months are left off the X axis (logical enough: how should Excel chart data that doesn't exist?). What I want is for the X axis to always show all months, regardless of the data i.e. there should be gaps in the data for missing months, as there is when multiple series are shown. Relevent point: I am running all of this from VBA code, including the copying in of a recordset from an Access database. This doesn't seem like it should be such a hard thing to do, but I have researched this every which way, and can't find a good way to do it. The only solutions I have thought of a 1. Loop through my recordset and add customer & month entries (with missing data) for all missing months (Ugh). 2. Some kind of voodoo with a dummy series (haven't figured this one out fully though). I would be really, really grateful for any pointers. TIA |
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"Kelly O'Day" wrote in message
... Jeff: It sounds like you are using a line chart, not an XY chart. It's a pivot chart. Very convenient in some ways, but not very driveable, as I am finding out. Line charts treat the X axis data as categories, even if the data numeric. Ok: but I had the impression (based on some other posts in this group) that line charts handle temporal data just fine... XY charts threat the X axis data as numbers and plot them based on numeric value. Check your chart type. For trend charts and chart types, you may want to look at this page. http://processtrends.com/pg_charts_trend_chart.htm Interesting: thank you. Looks like the dummy series solution will be best. "Jeff Eckermann" wrote in message ... I have data grouped by month, as follows: Customer Month1 Data1 Data2 .... Customer Month2 Data1 Data2.... ...... ...... ..... ...... I am creating a pivottable & chart to show customer data series, with the months on the X axis. Works well, but when I am displaying a series that does not have data for all months, the absent months are left off the X axis (logical enough: how should Excel chart data that doesn't exist?). What I want is for the X axis to always show all months, regardless of the data i.e. there should be gaps in the data for missing months, as there is when multiple series are shown. Relevent point: I am running all of this from VBA code, including the copying in of a recordset from an Access database. This doesn't seem like it should be such a hard thing to do, but I have researched this every which way, and can't find a good way to do it. The only solutions I have thought of a 1. Loop through my recordset and add customer & month entries (with missing data) for all missing months (Ugh). 2. Some kind of voodoo with a dummy series (haven't figured this one out fully though). I would be really, really grateful for any pointers. TIA |
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