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Standardizing date scale in a scatter plot
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I'm making scatter plots of measurements taken on certain dates. The source data is in two columns, one with MDY text-formatted dates, and one with numbers. I need to standardize the X-axis (date) so that my major gridlines cross on the same day every year as I plot over many years, but I can't do this in scatter plot because dates are stored as serial numbers and my axis becomes offset when leap leap years come into play. Interestingly, this isn't a problem when I use line charts. In Line charts, excel handles dates on the x-axis in MDY format, and will allow me to set intervals as months or years as oppose to an arbitrary number of days. But line charts aren't as desirable because I can't graph more than one independent series of points (it forces all series to graph along the same x-values). So can I have my cake and eat it too? Can I get standard dates in a scatter plot? (or even if I could get different x-values in line plots would be helpful too) Thanks, Morgs |
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Standardizing date scale in a scatter plot
So can I have my cake and eat it too?
Su Create the chart as a line chart to get the nice date scale axis. Convert series 2 and up to XY series (select the series, Chart menu Chart Type), then assign each XY series to the primary axis (double click series, Axis tab Primary). - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Morgs" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm making scatter plots of measurements taken on certain dates. The source data is in two columns, one with MDY text-formatted dates, and one with numbers. I need to standardize the X-axis (date) so that my major gridlines cross on the same day every year as I plot over many years, but I can't do this in scatter plot because dates are stored as serial numbers and my axis becomes offset when leap leap years come into play. Interestingly, this isn't a problem when I use line charts. In Line charts, excel handles dates on the x-axis in MDY format, and will allow me to set intervals as months or years as oppose to an arbitrary number of days. But line charts aren't as desirable because I can't graph more than one independent series of points (it forces all series to graph along the same x-values). So can I have my cake and eat it too? Can I get standard dates in a scatter plot? (or even if I could get different x-values in line plots would be helpful too) Thanks, Morgs |
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