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Old January 6th, 2006, 12:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
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In my series data, the blank is created by an if statement so there is a
calculation here that makes the cell blank. should it still not plot it as
zero?
I looked where you mention, and I am already set up to plot emplty cells as
not plotted. But there are still zeros being plotted.

any help?
thanks

"John Mansfield" wrote:

hlp,

Click once on your chart. Then, go to the standard toolbar and go to Tools
- Options - Chart - Plot empty cells as: Not plotted (leave gaps).

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Regards,
John Mansfield
http://www.pdbook.com

"hlp" wrote:

How do I exclude blank cells in diagrams. If I have an area of data and among
these data some is blank. How do I get excel to not display these data as '0'
but just to skip the cell.

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Old January 6th, 2006, 10:10 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
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Default Skip blank cells in diagrams

Hi,

The blank part of your formula should be NA() rather than "".

=IF( test , value , NA() )

More information here
http://www.andypope.info/charts/brokenlines.htm

Cheers
Andy

groj wrote:
In my series data, the blank is created by an if statement so there is a
calculation here that makes the cell blank. should it still not plot it as
zero?
I looked where you mention, and I am already set up to plot emplty cells as
not plotted. But there are still zeros being plotted.

any help?
thanks

"John Mansfield" wrote:


hlp,

Click once on your chart. Then, go to the standard toolbar and go to Tools
- Options - Chart - Plot empty cells as: Not plotted (leave gaps).

----
Regards,
John Mansfield
http://www.pdbook.com

"hlp" wrote:


How do I exclude blank cells in diagrams. If I have an area of data and among
these data some is blank. How do I get excel to not display these data as '0'
but just to skip the cell.


--

Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info
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Old January 6th, 2006, 02:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
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Default Skip blank cells in diagrams

Andy,
If I use "NA()" then it places a "#NA" in the excel spread sheet due to that
condition. This defeats the purpose of formating my sheet to leave blanks. By
leaving blanks there is less information on the sheet and it looks much more
professional/neat.

Is there another way?

Thanks

"Andy Pope" wrote:

Hi,

The blank part of your formula should be NA() rather than "".

=IF( test , value , NA() )

More information here
http://www.andypope.info/charts/brokenlines.htm

Cheers
Andy

groj wrote:
In my series data, the blank is created by an if statement so there is a
calculation here that makes the cell blank. should it still not plot it as
zero?
I looked where you mention, and I am already set up to plot emplty cells as
not plotted. But there are still zeros being plotted.

any help?
thanks

"John Mansfield" wrote:


hlp,

Click once on your chart. Then, go to the standard toolbar and go to Tools
- Options - Chart - Plot empty cells as: Not plotted (leave gaps).

----
Regards,
John Mansfield
http://www.pdbook.com

"hlp" wrote:


How do I exclude blank cells in diagrams. If I have an area of data and among
these data some is blank. How do I get excel to not display these data as '0'
but just to skip the cell.


--

Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info

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Old January 6th, 2006, 02:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
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Default Skip blank cells in diagrams

Hi,

The replies to your other posts contain information on formatting the
cells such that the #NA is not displayed.

This might be a case where 2 sets of the data are required. One
formatted for the chart to work and one for the cell presentation to
look professional. No need to duplicate the actual data just use cell
references.

Cheers
Andy

groj wrote:
Andy,
If I use "NA()" then it places a "#NA" in the excel spread sheet due to that
condition. This defeats the purpose of formating my sheet to leave blanks. By
leaving blanks there is less information on the sheet and it looks much more
professional/neat.

Is there another way?

Thanks

"Andy Pope" wrote:


Hi,

The blank part of your formula should be NA() rather than "".

=IF( test , value , NA() )

More information here
http://www.andypope.info/charts/brokenlines.htm

Cheers
Andy

groj wrote:

In my series data, the blank is created by an if statement so there is a
calculation here that makes the cell blank. should it still not plot it as
zero?
I looked where you mention, and I am already set up to plot emplty cells as
not plotted. But there are still zeros being plotted.

any help?
thanks

"John Mansfield" wrote:



hlp,

Click once on your chart. Then, go to the standard toolbar and go to Tools
- Options - Chart - Plot empty cells as: Not plotted (leave gaps).

----
Regards,
John Mansfield
http://www.pdbook.com

"hlp" wrote:



How do I exclude blank cells in diagrams. If I have an area of data and among
these data some is blank. How do I get excel to not display these data as '0'
but just to skip the cell.


--

Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info


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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info
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Old February 23rd, 2006, 07:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
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Hi, I don't want my blank cells to appear anywhere on my chart. I want it to
ignore the cooresponding cell if the cell has #NA in it. Write now, I have
over 10,000 cells, but only 50 have results but the chart is trying to chart
the entire workbook.

"Andy Pope" wrote:

Hi,

The blank part of your formula should be NA() rather than "".

=IF( test , value , NA() )

More information here
http://www.andypope.info/charts/brokenlines.htm

Cheers
Andy

groj wrote:
In my series data, the blank is created by an if statement so there is a
calculation here that makes the cell blank. should it still not plot it as
zero?
I looked where you mention, and I am already set up to plot emplty cells as
not plotted. But there are still zeros being plotted.

any help?
thanks

"John Mansfield" wrote:


hlp,

Click once on your chart. Then, go to the standard toolbar and go to Tools
- Options - Chart - Plot empty cells as: Not plotted (leave gaps).

----
Regards,
John Mansfield
http://www.pdbook.com

"hlp" wrote:


How do I exclude blank cells in diagrams. If I have an area of data and among
these data some is blank. How do I get excel to not display these data as '0'
but just to skip the cell.


--

Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info

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Old February 24th, 2006, 02:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
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Look at dynamic charts
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http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/ne...rts/index.html
http://www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme/E...ps/Dynamic.htm
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Hi, I don't want my blank cells to appear anywhere on my chart. I want it
to
ignore the cooresponding cell if the cell has #NA in it. Write now, I
have
over 10,000 cells, but only 50 have results but the chart is trying to
chart
the entire workbook.

"Andy Pope" wrote:

Hi,

The blank part of your formula should be NA() rather than "".

=IF( test , value , NA() )

More information here
http://www.andypope.info/charts/brokenlines.htm

Cheers
Andy

groj wrote:
In my series data, the blank is created by an if statement so there is
a
calculation here that makes the cell blank. should it still not plot it
as
zero?
I looked where you mention, and I am already set up to plot emplty
cells as
not plotted. But there are still zeros being plotted.

any help?
thanks

"John Mansfield" wrote:


hlp,

Click once on your chart. Then, go to the standard toolbar and go to
Tools
- Options - Chart - Plot empty cells as: Not plotted (leave gaps).

----
Regards,
John Mansfield
http://www.pdbook.com

"hlp" wrote:


How do I exclude blank cells in diagrams. If I have an area of data
and among
these data some is blank. How do I get excel to not display these data
as '0'
but just to skip the cell.


--

Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info



 




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