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CMSCMSCMS
Apr 30, 2021Iron Contributor
Strange Behaviour With XY Graph and Text
Hi folks, I'm trying to understand the behaviour of an XY scatter graph. Spreadsheet at the following link https://www.dropbox.com/s/1otozhfjqmwkpz4/Book2.xlsx?dl=0 I want to plot two column...
- Apr 30, 2021
The x-values of an XY Scatter chart should not be text. Cell B191 contains the text value N/A. This causes Excel to use sequential numbers 1 ... 227 for the x-axis.
If you either change B191 to the error value #N/A or clear this cell, the chart will look the way you want.
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HansVogelaar
Apr 30, 2021MVP
The x-values of an XY Scatter chart should not be text. Cell B191 contains the text value N/A. This causes Excel to use sequential numbers 1 ... 227 for the x-axis.
If you either change B191 to the error value #N/A or clear this cell, the chart will look the way you want.
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CMSCMSCMS
Apr 30, 2021Iron Contributor
Thanks Hans, that explains it. I was trying to figure out where it got those values from.