Too Many Headings, Values for Chart Feature To Handle???

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Dave - 05 Sep 2007 19:16 GMT

I'm having problems setting up a chart with the following headings (see
below). The Chart Wizard will only let me select so many headings (&
values). If I CTRL - click one heading too many, the list field window clears
and shows the last cell selected. Any ideas what's happening here?

Column Headings:
Aerosol, Art, Batch, Bulk, Dykem, Mark-Tex ,Outsource, Quality, R&D,
Receiving, Scrubs, Shipping, WHC

Colimn Subheadings:     DEV, NCP

Row Headings:
BATCHING
CODING
FILLING
HANDLING    HAZCOM
IMPROVEMENT
INVENTORY
LABEL DEFECT
PACKAGE DEFECT
RAW MATERIAL
RECEIVING
RECORDS
RELEASE
TEST SPEC
YIELDS
TOTALS BY DEPARTMENT

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Jon Peltier - 05 Sep 2007 20:54 GMT

Are the headings in separate cells, which you have to select using
CTRL+Click? In that case you need to arrange the data so that everything is
in contiguous ranges.

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Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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> I'm having problems setting up a chart with the following headings (see
> below). The Chart Wizard will only let me select so many headings (&
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> YIELDS
> TOTALS BY DEPARTMENT

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Dave - 05 Sep 2007 22:36 GMT

I merged the the top cells of 2 columns for the header label "Aerosol". The 2
subheadings are under it. I have 2 values (Dev & NCP), one under each
subheadings, for all 13 header labels. I want to chart Dev and NCP values
separately. Can this be done using a pivot table? I've never used them
before.

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> Are the headings in separate cells, which you have to select using
> CTRL+Click? In that case you need to arrange the data so that everything is
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> > YIELDS
> > TOTALS BY DEPARTMENT

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Jon Peltier - 05 Sep 2007 22:58 GMT

How many rows of values under the subheadings?

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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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>I merged the the top cells of 2 columns for the header label "Aerosol". The
>2
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>> > TOTALS BY DEPARTMENT

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