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Old April 7th, 2010, 04:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Marith
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Default Data disappears when I edit the chart.

nI have a x-y chart created from a spreadsheet made last year. There are 5
data series plotted in different color symbols. Now when I try to edit it
(change the source data columns), one of the symbol sets for one series just
flat disappears--though it is still shown in the legend. There is no
difference in the number ranges between the sets so it's not an axis-scale
problem. I have copied all the data into a new xls file and re-created the
graph. All the data points show up except for that one series--even though
its label shows up in the legend, no points. I have made sure that all the
source numbers are formatted as numbers. I have been a major Excel user for
15 years and have never encountered this.
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Old April 7th, 2010, 08:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Jon Peltier[_2_]
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Default Data disappears when I edit the chart.

Make sure the new data range for that misbehaving series contains
numbers, not text. Remove formatting from the cells: if it's left
aligned it's text, right aligned numeric.

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774-275-0064
http://peltiertech.com/


On 4/7/2010 11:38 AM, Marith wrote:
nI have a x-y chart created from a spreadsheet made last year. There are 5
data series plotted in different color symbols. Now when I try to edit it
(change the source data columns), one of the symbol sets for one series just
flat disappears--though it is still shown in the legend. There is no
difference in the number ranges between the sets so it's not an axis-scale
problem. I have copied all the data into a new xls file and re-created the
graph. All the data points show up except for that one series--even though
its label shows up in the legend, no points. I have made sure that all the
source numbers are formatted as numbers. I have been a major Excel user for
15 years and have never encountered this.

 




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