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Old 11-07-2008, 03:32 PM   #1
SB Mull
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In Excel 2002 I built a simple line chart with 3 series, date bottom axis -
the source date table was a huge worksheet of 1000 lines and 30 columns, but
and my chart used 3 contiguous columns plus a non-contiguous date column. To
update the chart daily, i simply added the new line to the worksheet,
extended my selection box to cover that line and the chart was done. I had
set up legend titles that were not the same as the related column titles.
Now that I have converted to Excel 2007, none of this works - when I try to
update the series data, the chart melts into one line and I lose the legends
I set up (reverts back to Series 1, etc.) The date axis works fine. I
discovered I could manually update the ending cell number in the 'data
selection' box which was not satisfactory but works; however, no matter what
I do, the legend always goes back to the generic. Can this be fixed, or do I
need to rebuild the function using one of the dynamic models you have
recommended? Is this an intentional difference related to Excel 2007?
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Old 16-07-2008, 10:03 PM   #2
SB Mull
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Can anyone help with this? I am managing to live with the problem on the
simple chart I do daily, but will need a more efficient approach when I
create my next chart.
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"SB Mull" wrote:

> In Excel 2002 I built a simple line chart with 3 series, date bottom axis -
> the source date table was a huge worksheet of 1000 lines and 30 columns, but
> and my chart used 3 contiguous columns plus a non-contiguous date column. To
> update the chart daily, i simply added the new line to the worksheet,
> extended my selection box to cover that line and the chart was done. I had
> set up legend titles that were not the same as the related column titles.
> Now that I have converted to Excel 2007, none of this works - when I try to
> update the series data, the chart melts into one line and I lose the legends
> I set up (reverts back to Series 1, etc.) The date axis works fine. I
> discovered I could manually update the ending cell number in the 'data
> selection' box which was not satisfactory but works; however, no matter what
> I do, the legend always goes back to the generic. Can this be fixed, or do I
> need to rebuild the function using one of the dynamic models you have
> recommended? Is this an intentional difference related to Excel 2007?
> --
> Sandra

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