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Old February 23rd, 2009, 09:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
LisaK
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Default Date in data is changing to Jan in chart Excel 07

I have a row of dates: Dec-96, Dec-97, Dec 98, and so on up to Dec-08. The
date in the first cell is typed in as 12/15/96, but formatted to show Dec-96.
The rest of the cells are a foumula: =cell+365, the cell value is relative.
When we create a chart, they become Jan. I tried changing the first
underlying date to 12/1/96, which worked sometimes but not everytime I
created a chart, and it didn't work for the end user at all. I've never run
into this before. We have recently migrated to Office 07.
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Old February 24th, 2009, 12:31 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Jon Peltier
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Default Date in data is changing to Jan in chart Excel 07

If the values are not recognized as dates, or if the chart doesn't know the
dates should be used as X values, then you might be looking at how counting
numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) look in date format. 1 = 1 Jan 1900, 2 = 2 Jan 1900,
etc.

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"LisaK" wrote in message
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I have a row of dates: Dec-96, Dec-97, Dec 98, and so on up to Dec-08. The
date in the first cell is typed in as 12/15/96, but formatted to show
Dec-96.
The rest of the cells are a foumula: =cell+365, the cell value is
relative.
When we create a chart, they become Jan. I tried changing the first
underlying date to 12/1/96, which worked sometimes but not everytime I
created a chart, and it didn't work for the end user at all. I've never
run
into this before. We have recently migrated to Office 07.



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Old February 24th, 2009, 12:45 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Shane Devenshire[_3_]
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Default Date in data is changing to Jan in chart Excel 07

Hi,

try this, suppose your first date is in A1 then in A2 enter the following
formula:

=EDATE(A1,12)

This will return the same date a year (12 months) into the future.

I don't see what adding 365 or better yet 365.25 doesn't work but...
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If this helps, please click the Yes button

Cheers,
Shane Devenshire


"LisaK" wrote:

I have a row of dates: Dec-96, Dec-97, Dec 98, and so on up to Dec-08. The
date in the first cell is typed in as 12/15/96, but formatted to show Dec-96.
The rest of the cells are a foumula: =cell+365, the cell value is relative.
When we create a chart, they become Jan. I tried changing the first
underlying date to 12/1/96, which worked sometimes but not everytime I
created a chart, and it didn't work for the end user at all. I've never run
into this before. We have recently migrated to Office 07.

 




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