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February 14th, 2006, 09:31 PM
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Chart oddity
I was trying to make a simple line chart (Excel 2000). I had the following
columns: Date, Heat 05, Air Cond 05, Heat 06, Air Cond 06 all populated with the running time of the furnace or air conditioner up to today's date. The chart would omit the first column of data to the right of the Date column until I deleted the heading "Date" from the Date column. Everything else in the chart appeared normal. Is this normal behaviour or have I stumbled upon a bug of some kind? -- Ron P 
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February 16th, 2006, 04:28 AM
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Chart oddity
I can't envision exactly what was going wrong. But I'll point out that a
not-well-known best practice is to leave the top left cell blank. This helps Excel parse the data range. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ "Ron P" wrote in message ... I was trying to make a simple line chart (Excel 2000). I had the following columns: Date, Heat 05, Air Cond 05, Heat 06, Air Cond 06 all populated with the running time of the furnace or air conditioner up to today's date. The chart would omit the first column of data to the right of the Date column until I deleted the heading "Date" from the Date column. Everything else in the chart appeared normal. Is this normal behaviour or have I stumbled upon a bug of some kind? -- Ron P
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February 16th, 2006, 03:05 PM
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Chart oddity
Thanks for the thought. It is a bit strange and something to keep in mind
when charts are going to be used. It had me wondering what I had done wrong with my data seeing that the chart wasn't working out. Thank you. "Jon Peltier" wrote in message ... I can't envision exactly what was going wrong. But I'll point out that a not-well-known best practice is to leave the top left cell blank. This helps Excel parse the data range. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ "Ron P" wrote in message ... I was trying to make a simple line chart (Excel 2000). I had the following columns: Date, Heat 05, Air Cond 05, Heat 06, Air Cond 06 all populated with the running time of the furnace or air conditioner up to today's date. The chart would omit the first column of data to the right of the Date column until I deleted the heading "Date" from the Date column. Everything else in the chart appeared normal. Is this normal behaviour or have I stumbled upon a bug of some kind? -- Ron P
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