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Old 22-09-2003, 05:42 PM   #1
C. Land
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That's it! Thanks a lot!

>-----Original Message-----
>Catherine -
>
>Right click on the chart, select Chart Options from the

pop up menu,
>click on the Axes tab, and change the option under

Category axis from
>Automatic (or Time Scale) to Category. Excel thinks you

want to use the
>date values for your category axis, and leaves spaces for

every day,
>even if you only have data intermittently.
>
>- Jon
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>Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
>http://www.geocities.com/jonpeltier/Excel/index.html
>_______
>
>C. Land wrote:
>> I create a bar graph with three bars per date (a

bunch).
>> However, the area that the chart attempts to place

these
>> three bars is so tiny that all I end up with is three
>> black lines (it's so small it is showing only the

outline
>> of the bar, not the color). There is a HUGE gap

between
>> the bunches and I cannot seem to narrow this gap. If I
>> could fill in this space, the bars would be visible. I
>> have tried changing the "gap width" to zero,

the "offset"
>> to zero and the "overlap" to zero.
>>
>> Help!

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