I have scatterplots with date/time along the X axis, and data on the Y axis.  
I'd like to add shading from sunrise to sunset.  
I can create a line on the scatterplot that is 0 during the day and a value
greater than the max Y value at night, but would like to be able to shade

I want to replicate the graph format shown in the first graph of the
following article:
[url="http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1031173"]
I think this format would work well for my purposes, though my data is

I have a line graph that runs over time.  i would like to highlight certain
areas of continuous time with shading of different colour.  Is this or
something similar possible?

I have a list of students with their grades at the end of each year.  The
grades are alphanumeric - 3C, 4B and so on.  I need to make a chart for each
student that shows their grades year on year and then with a trend line (?)
to predict their ultimate grade.

I have a series of discrete items of data comprising mean, SD and median
values (no range or actual data series available).
I am trying to display each discrete data point graphically (mean, SD and
median) but am struggling to do this. I am using latest version of Excel but

I've inserted a text box into a chart but realise i no longer need it.
How do you remove it?
any help would be great.
Oliver

I have a line chart that keeps track of daily values and also monthly totals.
At the end of the month the monthly values line takes a steep drop back to
an initial value for the first day of the new month.  Is there any way to
delete this line segment and still use the series as ...

It has been about 2 years from the last time I worked with Excel. At that
time I had lots of charts and lots of worksheets tracking units, production
and so on. I would have 2 or 3 master sheets that took data from each sheet.
So here is my issue. I have made a workbook for ...

I'm just trying this kind of pie chart for the first time.
Example:  I have 408 people in my company 401K.  Of these, 38 joined in
2006, the other 370 joined in 2005.
Of these 38 - 29 get company match, 9 don't.

I have a chart where some of the category axis' labels are too long and I
would like for them to wrap into two lines.  is there a way to do this?

I want to graph the data from a table, but I want the charts to interpolate
the lines inbetween the "blank" cells.  All of the cells have formulas in
them because they are pulling the data from another worksheet, but some of
them appear blank because there is no data for that ...

I am trying to plot the following points on a default line graph:
X                 Y
20.09      25.91
54.19      214.73

I have 3 series of data; 1. A total figure (1500-2500) and two series of
percentages (0-100%).
I would like to show them all on the one chart but the scale sits far too
hight to see the percentages and they just look like straight lines.  Is it

I inherited a number of Excel workbooks with charts. I cannot resize the
legend because placement has been fixed. Is it possible to change that so I
can move and resize the legend freely?

I've successfully been exporting a series of dynamically generated charts
from Excel to GIF (I'm programming in VSTO) using code like:
Me.Application.ActiveChart.Export("C:\mygraph.gif","GIF")
I now need to export these same charts to EMF or WMF so that they can be