Excel 2007: More control over graphs wanted
 

Dear aldies and gentlemen,

(I have been creating analysis and graph solutions for our company with 70
people. Will we be upgrading to MS Office 2007? Most likely not. Here is
why...)

I really hoped that Excel / MS Graph 2007 would do the trick since MS spent
so much time on improving the visual quality.

Unfortunately with all the 3D stuff, basics were forgotten. This e.g.
concerns "row diagrams", which are widely used in market research. (Don't
know the exact English phrase, it is "Balken" in German, graphs in which bars
extend from left to right and the axis label is plotted on the left side of
the y-axis)

You still cannot right align long text which has line breaks, so that the
right end of the text aligns with the y axis. It is always centred. And you
still cannot scale the area in which the y-axis labels are printed
independently of the actual graph size.

Thus the graph sizes will continue to vary from graph to graph and thus page
to page in reports based on the length of the text and the (longer) text will
still be centred on the left side of the y axis.

Quite frankly, this is not professional and has been irritating me for
almost a decade now and I do not understand why this is not adressed.
Complete control over the graph proportions and text alignement basics seems
a little more important to me than shadows and 3D textures.

And I do not think this is just me. I know this from dozend German
corporations who use our services and dozends employees: This is a topic
which does not slow down the world economy, but irritates people. Some people
break the graphs apart and do this manually, just so it looks alright.

So please, is there anybody out there who can spend the time to fix this?

Kind regards,
Thomas

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Excel 2007: More control over graphs wanted
 

Thomas

Can't be sure this'll be fixed, but I know the charting area has the
greatest focus in the product before it is released as many parts are still
not working

Maybe they'll happen by and see this post as I believe they are filtering
2007 and beta

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
www.nickhodge.co.uk
HIS


"Thomas D" <Thomas wrote in message
...
Dear aldies and gentlemen,

(I have been creating analysis and graph solutions for our company with 70
people. Will we be upgrading to MS Office 2007? Most likely not. Here is
why...)

I really hoped that Excel / MS Graph 2007 would do the trick since MS
spent
so much time on improving the visual quality.

Unfortunately with all the 3D stuff, basics were forgotten. This e.g.
concerns "row diagrams", which are widely used in market research. (Don't
know the exact English phrase, it is "Balken" in German, graphs in which
bars
extend from left to right and the axis label is plotted on the left side
of
the y-axis)

You still cannot right align long text which has line breaks, so that the
right end of the text aligns with the y axis. It is always centred. And
you
still cannot scale the area in which the y-axis labels are printed
independently of the actual graph size.

Thus the graph sizes will continue to vary from graph to graph and thus
page
to page in reports based on the length of the text and the (longer) text
will
still be centred on the left side of the y axis.

Quite frankly, this is not professional and has been irritating me for
almost a decade now and I do not understand why this is not adressed.
Complete control over the graph proportions and text alignement basics
seems
a little more important to me than shadows and 3D textures.

And I do not think this is just me. I know this from dozend German
corporations who use our services and dozends employees: This is a topic
which does not slow down the world economy, but irritates people. Some
people
break the graphs apart and do this manually, just so it looks alright.

So please, is there anybody out there who can spend the time to fix this?

Kind regards,
Thomas

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http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc