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Help ! Scatter Chart plots wrongly !
Blewyn -
You should make an XY Scatter chart, which plots according to the actual X values, not a Line chart, which plots according to the order of the X categories. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP http://www.geocities.com/jonpeltier/Excel/index.html _______ Blewyn wrote: Update : I managed to get the chart plotting correctly by plotting the shared axis values on the X axis and the successive series values on the Y axis. How do I swap the axes around so that the chart plots as I need it to ? Thanks, Blewyn |
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Help ! Scatter Chart plots wrongly !
Jon,
I am using an XY scatter chart, not a line chart. What I'd like to know is how to set the Y axis as the shared values axis, and the X axis as the scale for separate datasets. For example, I'd like to be able to plot a graph of 0-60 accelertion curves for 3 cars. I'd like the Y axis to show time, and the X axis to show velocity. The data is stored as one column of times in 1 second intervals, and three columns of velocities at each time point. So the data looks like : Time Car 1 Car 2 Car 3 secs mph 00 0 0 0 05 6 8 10 10 9 12 15 and so on. I want to plot time on the Y axis, and velocity on the X axis. I know I could do a workaround by interpolating the times at each velocity interval and plotting that, but the data I'm actually working with is real-time readings of non-linear and variable data, so it's not really valid to interpolate, even between two rows of data. All I want to do is plot my reference column vertically and my variable data horizontally, without resorting to using landscape paper mode and writing all the labels at 90deg (bad for the neck !) Can you help ? Cheers, Blewyn |
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