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Charting horizonal timelines of historic people
Hi All, My excel is not up to this and I would be very grateful for any help or suggestions. I have a table of containing birth and death dates of historical figures. E.g. Isaac Newton 4...
BryTack You'd have to play around a bit with separate series in a stacked bar chart. Perhaps something like in the attached file.
BryTack You'd have to play around a bit with separate series in a stacked bar chart. Perhaps something like in the attached file.
Hi Riny, first, a very big thank you for your reply. For me the 'big step' you introduced was having a baseline figure (1500) and then relative values against that - as opposed to the absolute values I was using. Yes, can see a way forward now. Again thank you.
If this does not sound ungrateful, and if site administrators allow, for those the find this post in the future and doing similar things, likely to abandon this approach in favour of a piece of software called Aeon Timeline. Still evaluating but seems to have every I need and lots more.
Regards
Bryan
If this does not sound ungrateful, and if site administrators allow, for those the find this post in the future and doing similar things, likely to abandon this approach in favour of a piece of software called Aeon Timeline. Still evaluating but seems to have every I need and lots more.
Regards
Bryan