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MS Office Forum / Excel / Charting / October 2007Word/Excel Charts x axis to months
Hi, I'm trying to format a bar chart which has promotions on the y axis and i would like the x axis to be months of the year NOV, DEC, JAN 08, FEB 08 and so forth instead of numbers 0-7 but I dont know how to change this? The chart has bars across according to which month(s) the promotion will be happening in the next financial year. The chart is currently in word in the document and connected to data on excel. I'm using microsoft office 2007. anyone help plz? Do you have the data set out like this: NOV 22 DEC 34 JAN 12 ..... Now select all the data and make the chart. It sounds like you just have a column of numbers (promotions) best wishes  SignatureBernard Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove CAPS in email address > Hi, > I'm trying to format a bar chart which has promotions on the y axis and i [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > help > plz? Hi, i havent got data like that yet, i've only got a series of promotions and months that i want to do it in: Loyalty club program: Feb 2008 Beauty packages: Dec 07-Jan 08 Catalogue: Dec 07-Jun08 etc..etc... i've seen a bar chart done in another report and i want to do something like it..where bars go horizontally..according to when the promotion is happening... right now i've got the promos on the y axis and on the xaxis 0-7 because the data was from a sample template of microsoft word 07, except that i've deleted the numerical data from the excel spreadsheet that comes with it...so now my chart has the two axis and the grid but no bars going across..the chart is empty > Do you have the data set out like this: > NOV 22 [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > help > > plz? You need to show the data in terms of a start date in one cell, and either an end date or a duration in another, so you can make a floating bar chart. This type of chart is called Gantt chart, and I wrote a tutorial about these in Excel: http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=343 - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ > Hi, i havent got data like that yet, i've only got a series of promotions > and [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >> > help >> > plz? Hi Jon, thanks for the site link..it helped a lot, my chart is pretty much complete..the only probs i still hav are that for one of the bars for a campaign from april 08 to may 08 instead of the horizontal coloured bar filling exactly from the april vertical grid line to the may one, it is filling just before the april grid line and ending at may, so it looks like the promotion starts before april (i.e. mid march) or it looks like the bar is off centre. Can u help? > You need to show the data in terms of a start date in one cell, and either > an end date or a duration in another, so you can make a floating bar chart. [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > >> > help > >> > plz? Are the dates correct? It knows that April 08 is April 1, 2008, and not April 8, 2007? - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ > Hi Jon, > thanks for the site link..it helped a lot, my chart is pretty much [quoted text clipped - 73 lines] >> >> > help >> >> > plz? |
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