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Problems with "hyster-grams" :-)
I some problems using histograms in Office Excel 2003
(11.6355.6360) SP1. The one problem I cannot seem to work around is: the X-axis data "labels" are centered under the bar. I want the "labels" to be centered under the right-edge of the bar. (I edit change Overlap and Gap Width in Format Data Series / Options so that I have "fat" bars that touch each other.) The fact is: the X-axis "labels" are not labels at all. They are, in fact, the max value of the bin. ("Well, of course!") I want them to appear where the max value belongs, namely the right edge. That is the format that we are using in class. In fact, I want the X-axis values to be centered under the right edge, just as they are in Excel scatter plots. How can do that with histograms (actually "clustered column" charts)? The other problem I have worked around. But if there is a simpler solution, I'd appreciate hearing about it. When I enter the Input Range in the Histogram tool, I am not able to enter the ranges by name. If I type the name in the field, I get an error. When I have the dialog box for the field open, I cannot type into the name field (upper-left of the worksheet), as we normally can do to select a named range. Of course, I can simply drag the cursor to highlight the range. But that is a pain to do when the range is several hundred rows -- which is why I assigned a name to it in the first place. Is there some way to enter the Input Range by name? |
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Jon Peltier wrote:
Mike Middleton shows how to make Better Histograms: http://www.treeplan.com/better.htm Good pointer. Thanks. |
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Jon Peltier wrote:
Mike Middleton shows how to make Better Histograms: http://www.treeplan.com/better.htm Although the instructions are well-written, they do not seem to work with Office Excel 2003 (11.6355.6360) SP1. I can work around one problem (Paste Special is no longer permitted when the chart is selected -- I use the custom chart type "line - column on 2 axes"). But when I perform the actions that are intended to move the numeric axis from vertical to horizontal, Excel insists on treating the numeric axis as categories, centering the numeric labels again. |
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