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MS Office Forum / Excel / Charting / October 2007create multiple scatterplot from 3 columns
Hi, Is it possible to create a scatterplot with multiple series (>2) from a dataset with 3 columns: group X Y A 1,9 9,6 B 9,9 3,6 A 8,3 8,4 B 7,7 5,8 B 6,9 0,8 C 6,8 7,3 C 8,2 8 D 6,8 4,5 D 3,1 5,3 E 3,3 5,9 The firts column defines the group (each group has a different symbol), the second and third define the X and Y coordinates. My dataset contains about 400 lines and has 15 groups, which is too much work to copy the XY from each group to different columns. I'm working in Excel 2003. many thanks, Maarten You cannot use this data to make a chart. You need to separate the X and Y into different columns. This is easy enough to do: insert a column between the current X and Y comma separated pairs, then split each using Date menu > Text To Columns. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ > Hi, > Is it possible to create a scatterplot with multiple series (>2) from a [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > many thanks, > Maarten Ha, but they are already separated into 3 columns. The problem is that the program should recognize different series (A, B, C, D, ...) from the first column. I know how to create the scatterplots when the X and Y of each serie are in separate columns (e.g. column 1 has X from serie 1, column 2 has Y from serie 1, column 3 has X from serie 2, c4 the Y from serie 2, c5 the X from serie 3, etc...). However, it takes too much work to copy-paste each time all the X and Y from each serie into different columns. is there a way to define automatically all the series from column 1? By using a macro or so? > You cannot use this data to make a chart. You need to separate the X and Y > into different columns. This is easy enough to do: insert a column between [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > many thanks, > > Maarten Oh, you're using the comma as a decimal separator, not to separate X and Y within a cell. Duh, my bad. This example shows how to separate out the series' Y values easily, using formulas in columns off to the right of the data: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/ConditionalChart1.html - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ > Ha, but they are already separated into 3 columns. The problem is that the > program should recognize different series (A, B, C, D, ...) from the first [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >> > many thanks, >> > Maarten Works fine, thanks! > Oh, you're using the comma as a decimal separator, not to separate X and Y > within a cell. Duh, my bad. [quoted text clipped - 64 lines] > >> > many thanks, > >> > Maarten |
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