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From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Excel charting question
Keywords: Scatterplots
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.191204.8817@pmafire.inel.gov>
Date: 30 Nov 90 19:12:04 GMT
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Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho
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mlloyd@maths.tcd.ie (Michael Lloyd) writes:
|The procedure is as follows: (God, how many times have I had to tell people
|this?)
|
|Select the data - both columns.
|Copy.
|New Chart (which will be _blank_ if you copied)
|Paste _SPECIAL_, which produces a dialog box.  Make sure "Categories in First
|Column" option is ON.
|You now have a chart which, if you use Gallery menu, Scatter..., will have
|the form you require.
|
|Beaut, huh?  Now what was that about ease of use?

And to think that Microsoft has taken out big two-page ads in all the
magazines asking people to tell them what they're doing wrong with
Excel....

:^)

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