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Old September 5th, 2008, 04:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Jon Peltier
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Default Surface Chart/Contour Chart options

Select the chart first so it has eight black "handles" on the corners and
edges (not white handles). Then right click on the legend, and choose Format
Legend.

- Jon
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"royjacob" wrote in message
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John,

I right clicked and choose format from the top screen but I did not see
any
option to choose scale. I clicked the size button and that opened a
window
that named "Size and Properties". This had a section called "Size and
rotate", "Scale", "Crop From", and "Origional Size". However the "Scale"
function was grayed out.

Regards
Roy

"Jon Peltier" wrote:

Right click on the legend, choose Format, and set the scale on one of the
tabs.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"royjacob" wrote in message
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Hello,

I am trying to make a 2d surface chart from some data i have collected.
When i plot the data using the Wireframe Contour option I get a 2d
surface
plot where Excel sets the legend into 5 categories(ie from 0-2, 2-4,
4-6,
6-8, and 8-10). Is there a way to increase these catergories and
choose
what
data Excel lumps ito these categories so that my graph will have more
countours? (IE so that i could set it to be from 0-1, 1-2, 3-4, 4-5,
5-6,
7-8, 8-9, and 9-10 so that i would have 10 contours on my graph rather
then
5?)