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How to add line at today's date in chart
I'm looking to add a vertical line at today's date in a chart. The
axis is using monthly data and I would actually settle for today' month, though it would be nice to have the line move throughout th month. Series1 points to 6/1/03, 7/1/03 ... 6/1/04 Series2 points to relevant data I tried setting series3 to ={$TODAY()} but that did not work. Did not find anything useful googling. Any ideas -- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com |
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Hi
have a look at http://andypope.info/charts/averageline.htm http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/ch...nes/index.html http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/...s.html#AddLine for adding lines to a chart HTH Frank I'm looking to add a vertical line at today's date in a chart. The X axis is using monthly data and I would actually settle for today's month, though it would be nice to have the line move throughout the month. Series1 points to 6/1/03, 7/1/03 ... 6/1/04 Series2 points to relevant data I tried setting series3 to ={$TODAY()} but that did not work. Did not find anything useful googling. Any ideas? --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ |
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How to add line at today's date in chart
I believe Jon Peltier covers this topic on his site:
http://PeltierTech.com/Excel/Charts/ -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Xelc " wrote in message ... I'm looking to add a vertical line at today's date in a chart. The X axis is using monthly data and I would actually settle for today's month, though it would be nice to have the line moSve throughout the month. Series1 points to 6/1/03, 7/1/03 ... 6/1/04 Series2 points to relevant data I tried setting series3 to ={$TODAY()} but that did not work. Did not find anything useful googling. Any ideas? --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ |
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How to add line at today's date in chart
Well, thanx for the web sites but none of the tricks mentioned ther
work properly. Some, like creating a combination chart, have truel disasterous results! Guess this can't be done -- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com |
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How to add line at today's date in chart
Hi Xelc,
It is possible to create a moving date line on a chart. Take a look at this example. (http://www.andypope.info/ngs/ng25.htm) Xelc < wrote: Well, thanx for the web sites but none of the tricks mentioned there work properly. Some, like creating a combination chart, have truely disasterous results! Guess this can't be done. --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ -- Cheers Andy ------ Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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How to add line at today's date in chart
Thanx for trying Andy, but the same problem persists - you cheated an
added a column of data to the workbook. The goal was to get a datelin by putting something into a formula (e.g. series3 ={$TODAY()} an nothing into the spreadsheet itself. But that's a good reference site, I'll save the link -- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com |
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How to add line at today's date in chart
Ok, but I hardly think its cheating when you didn't state the rules :)
Anyway, you can not use a formula directly in a data series. However you can use a reference to a named range and the named range can contain a formula. Try the example again, which has be modified to use a dynamic range. Xelc < wrote: Thanx for trying Andy, but the same problem persists - you cheated and added a column of data to the workbook. The goal was to get a dateline by putting something into a formula (e.g. series3 ={$TODAY()} and nothing into the spreadsheet itself. But that's a good reference site, I'll save the link. --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ -- Cheers Andy ------ Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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How to add line at today's date in chart
Some of the disaster might be due to your monthly data being in months
and today's date being in days. Today's date is 38026, but the month is only 1248. Completely different scales, if you are trying to put them together onto a time scale line chart axis. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services http://PeltierTech.com/Excel/Charts/ _______ Xelc < wrote: Well, thanx for the web sites but none of the tricks mentioned there work properly. Some, like creating a combination chart, have truely disasterous results! Guess this can't be done. --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ |
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