#1   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1
Default Chart Set Up

I am trying to create a chart that shows goal, projection and actual dollar
columns by month for an entire calndar year. I can get the columns on the
chart but I can't figure out how to arrange my data to show each month below.
Can anyone help?
  #2   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 6,582
Default Chart Set Up

You mean you can't get the chart to use the month data as categories on the
X axis?

With an existing chart, go to Chart menu Source Data, and on the series
tab, click in the Category Labels entry box, and with the mouse select the
range.

For a new chart, put the labels column to the left of the other data
columns, put a column header on the Y value columns, and leave the column
header on the labels column blank. Select the whole range and run the chart
wizard. Excel sees the blank cell and knows the first row and column are
different, i.e., category labels and series names.

- Jon
-------
Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services, Inc.
http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/
_______


"BMC Ops" <BMC wrote in message
...
I am trying to create a chart that shows goal, projection and actual dollar
columns by month for an entire calndar year. I can get the columns on the
chart but I can't figure out how to arrange my data to show each month
below.
Can anyone help?



Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules

Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Creating a chart(? pie chart) that shows customers,dates and machi Mark M Charts and Charting in Excel 1 August 20th 08 10:19 PM
Excel 2003: How to nudge a chart element or shape on a chart? Ted M H Charts and Charting in Excel 5 June 30th 08 07:08 PM
chart from pivot data does not update x-axis bar chart values - bug jason gers Excel Discussion (Misc queries) 0 April 3rd 07 06:34 PM
Double-stacked Bar Chart WITH a Secondary Y Axis Line chart? lpenndorf Charts and Charting in Excel 1 February 7th 07 04:32 PM
Huge differences in chart values screws my bar chart scale up. Sirritys Charts and Charting in Excel 2 June 13th 06 10:33 AM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 11:00 PM.

Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 ExcelBanter.
The comments are property of their posters.
 

About Us

"It's about Microsoft Excel"