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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Excel charting question
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.170159.24659@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 90 17:01:59 GMT
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Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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Someone wants to do x,y graphs in Excel.  Ugh.  You have to have the x and
y data next to each other, x to the left, and select both sets of numbers
and "Copy".  Start a new graph, then "Paste Special", click the box that says
"Catagories in First Column" and click "Okay".  I just tried it and it worked
just like that.
I used "Scatter" for my type, I have a feeling "Pie" won't work as well.

For x,y graphs, Excel sucks.  For x,y,z graphs, go fish.

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Brian Aslakson

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