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plotting in excel 2007
I'm having difficulties making graphs in 2007, mainly because when i hit the
insert graph button excel says "i'll take it from here" and proceeds to make a graph of damn near the whole sheet which may contain 30-40 thousand data pairs. Is there no way to go back to the old wizard that let YOU pick what data you want to graph rather than Mr. Gates? I know that i can click on a location in the sheet where there's no data anywhere near it and it'll just open an empty plot but that shouldn't be the only way. |
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Hi,
I don't think you can stop Excel from creating and populating a chart by using the current area. You can restricted it, as you say, by selecting an empty. You can also select more than 1 cell, even in the middle of a area of data, and the chart will be based on that. Not exactly what you wanted by it should save time rather than waiting seconds, minutes even, for the chart to draw. Of course the real problem is remembering to select an empty or a few cells. Cheers Andy Kevin wrote: I'm having difficulties making graphs in 2007, mainly because when i hit the insert graph button excel says "i'll take it from here" and proceeds to make a graph of damn near the whole sheet which may contain 30-40 thousand data pairs. Is there no way to go back to the old wizard that let YOU pick what data you want to graph rather than Mr. Gates? I know that i can click on a location in the sheet where there's no data anywhere near it and it'll just open an empty plot but that shouldn't be the only way. -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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Unfortunately Dumbledore is dead. The Office design group knows better than
we how we use their products. Before you insert the chart, select the data you want plotted, or just the data for one series. Then you can struggle with the new source data dialog. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Kevin" wrote in message ... I'm having difficulties making graphs in 2007, mainly because when i hit the insert graph button excel says "i'll take it from here" and proceeds to make a graph of damn near the whole sheet which may contain 30-40 thousand data pairs. Is there no way to go back to the old wizard that let YOU pick what data you want to graph rather than Mr. Gates? I know that i can click on a location in the sheet where there's no data anywhere near it and it'll just open an empty plot but that shouldn't be the only way. |
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Thanks for the tips i'll try em out,
Kevin "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, I don't think you can stop Excel from creating and populating a chart by using the current area. You can restricted it, as you say, by selecting an empty. You can also select more than 1 cell, even in the middle of a area of data, and the chart will be based on that. Not exactly what you wanted by it should save time rather than waiting seconds, minutes even, for the chart to draw. Of course the real problem is remembering to select an empty or a few cells. Cheers Andy Kevin wrote: I'm having difficulties making graphs in 2007, mainly because when i hit the insert graph button excel says "i'll take it from here" and proceeds to make a graph of damn near the whole sheet which may contain 30-40 thousand data pairs. Is there no way to go back to the old wizard that let YOU pick what data you want to graph rather than Mr. Gates? I know that i can click on a location in the sheet where there's no data anywhere near it and it'll just open an empty plot but that shouldn't be the only way. -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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