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Can I make a chart that is longer than the offered page sizes?



 
 
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Old February 23rd, 2009, 11:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Digger
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Default Can I make a chart that is longer than the offered page sizes?

I am using Excel 2003 to graph data over distances of 10 to 15 thousand feet.
The page sizes offered are so small that changes in the data over this range
are difficult to detect.

Is there a way to make a custom page size that is roughly 12 inches tall
with the potential to be infinately long. This way, all the data wouldn't be
crowded into a limited area, and a person could scroll left or right along
the data interval.
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Old February 24th, 2009, 12:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Shane Devenshire[_3_]
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Default Can I make a chart that is longer than the offered page sizes?

Hi,

Infinitely long - No! You can customize to page size but it is related to
your printer drivers. You pick a different size page by choosing File, Page
Setup and on the Page sheet picking from Pager size.

You can imbed the chart in a sheet an widen the chart as wide as you want,
then when you print you will have a chart on multiple pages, and then you can
do a little old fashion cutting and pasting.


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"Digger" wrote:

I am using Excel 2003 to graph data over distances of 10 to 15 thousand feet.
The page sizes offered are so small that changes in the data over this range
are difficult to detect.

Is there a way to make a custom page size that is roughly 12 inches tall
with the potential to be infinately long. This way, all the data wouldn't be
crowded into a limited area, and a person could scroll left or right along
the data interval.

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Old February 24th, 2009, 12:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Jon Peltier
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Default Can I make a chart that is longer than the offered page sizes?

You could embed the chart in a worksheet, and make it however large you
want.

A nicer approach would be to only show part of the data on a normal sized
chart, and let the user scroll through the data. See the first example in
Stephen Bullen's charting examples (FunChrt7) at
http://oaltd.co.uk/Excel/SBXLPage.asp#Charting

- Jon
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I am using Excel 2003 to graph data over distances of 10 to 15 thousand
feet.
The page sizes offered are so small that changes in the data over this
range
are difficult to detect.

Is there a way to make a custom page size that is roughly 12 inches tall
with the potential to be infinately long. This way, all the data wouldn't
be
crowded into a limited area, and a person could scroll left or right along
the data interval.



 




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