I am drawing a bar chart of age of firefighters.
In the X axis I have the age interval and in the y axis I have numbe of
firefighters with age in that range.
The table is as follows:
Age No
20 0
30 4
40 64
In this table, 20 means that those whose age are between 0 and 20 and 30
means ages between 20 and 30. Chart draws the bar exactly above these
numbers, but for better interpretation I want the bar chart to appear between
these number. I think this is a basic question and there is a solution for it.
One solution is to put the age as follows:
0-20
20-30
30-40
in x axis but this is not a good solution.

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Rasoul Khoshravan Azar
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Bernard Liengme - 03 Sep 2007 13:43 GMT
Right click the x-axis; open the Format Axis dialog from the shortcut menu
On the Scale tab, check the box "Y axis crosses between categories"
best wishes

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>I am drawing a bar chart of age of firefighters.
> In the X axis I have the age interval and in the y axis I have numbe of
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> 30-40
> in x axis but this is not a good solution.
Del Cotter - 03 Sep 2007 17:27 GMT
>I am drawing a bar chart of age of firefighters.
>In this table, 20 means that those whose age are between 0 and 20 and 30
>means ages between 20 and 30. Chart draws the bar exactly above these
>numbers, but for better interpretation I want the bar chart to appear between
>these number.
Look here for Mike Middleton's solution:
http://www.treeplan.com/better.htm
You don't have to use the free add-in supplied. I think the page also
contains instructions for achieving the result manually.

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Jon Peltier - 03 Sep 2007 17:29 GMT
Try Mike Middleton's Better Histograms utility:
http://www.treeplan.com/better.htm
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>I am drawing a bar chart of age of firefighters.
> In the X axis I have the age interval and in the y axis I have numbe of
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
> 30-40
> in x axis but this is not a good solution.