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Old March 10th, 2004, 04:38 AM
Charlie
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I'm trying to get text as a value on a bar graph. The
data is similar to the following.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Brown White White Yellow

I want to have the colors as the Y-axis.

Can anyone help?
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Old March 10th, 2004, 01:03 PM
Jon Peltier
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Default Text on Y-Axis

Charlie -

You can define a dummy series to simulate the axis, and transform your
data, such that White=1, Yellow=2, or some appropriate scheme. Here's a
hint:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/Y_CategoryAxis.html

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services
http://PeltierTech.com/Excel/Charts/
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Charlie wrote:

I'm trying to get text as a value on a bar graph. The
data is similar to the following.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Brown White White Yellow

I want to have the colors as the Y-axis.

Can anyone help?


 




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