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Any help would be appreciated...
I want to have a column graph where I show the number of customer meetings necessary before a sale is completed. I have a graph where the X axis is the number of times that a customer has been met before a sale has been completed. The Y axis is the number of clients for each number of sale meetings. Therefore it shows for example that 6 customers took 10 sales meetings, 8 customers took 7 sales meetings and 9 customers took 4 sales meetings before sale. N 12 O. 11 10 O 9 * F 8 * 7 C 6 * U 5 S 4 T 3 S. 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NO. OF SALES MEETINGS All is fine except that I do NOT want to show values where there has been a single sales meeting resulting in a sale since this is treated differently. I have altered that data source and the graph is exactly as I want with the labels for the Y axis and the data-values on the columns. However, the labels for the X axis start at 1 and I need to start at 2 rather than 1. I cannot see how to set the X axis labels to start at 1. (It seems to be possible to do this for the Y axis in the scale option.) Any ideas please? Many thanks, Michael. |
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X-axis scale
You can do it for the y-axis since these are true numbers but in a column
chart the x-values are categories - they may have digits in them but they are treated as text. Workaround: in your data add a category 1 but for its y-value type =NA(). This will display as #N/A and the chart engine will know how to treat this as "nothing" rather than "zero" #Customers 1 #N/A 2 9 etc Do not put a title over the Meeting column until the chart is made - Excel will think you want two data series best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme remove caps from email "Michael T" wrote in message ... Any help would be appreciated... I want to have a column graph where I show the number of customer meetings necessary before a sale is completed. I have a graph where the X axis is the number of times that a customer has been met before a sale has been completed. The Y axis is the number of clients for each number of sale meetings. Therefore it shows for example that 6 customers took 10 sales meetings, 8 customers took 7 sales meetings and 9 customers took 4 sales meetings before sale. N 12 O. 11 10 O 9 * F 8 * 7 C 6 * U 5 S 4 T 3 S. 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NO. OF SALES MEETINGS All is fine except that I do NOT want to show values where there has been a single sales meeting resulting in a sale since this is treated differently. I have altered that data source and the graph is exactly as I want with the labels for the Y axis and the data-values on the columns. However, the labels for the X axis start at 1 and I need to start at 2 rather than 1. I cannot see how to set the X axis labels to start at 1. (It seems to be possible to do this for the Y axis in the scale option.) Any ideas please? Many thanks, Michael. |
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