Category axis in bubble chart

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Eric27

Hi,

I would like to draw a bubble chart with category axis eg.
with following data:

mon sun 5
mon rain 4
tue sun 1
tue cloudy 2
tue rain 7
wed sun 3
wed rain 8
wed cloudy 4

So on the x-axis I would like to see the labels mon, tue, wed; on the
y-axis
sun, cloudy, rain and the size of the bubbles is given by the numbers.

Is this possible in Excel XP and how to proceed?

Thx for your attention,

Eric
 
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Jon Peltier

Replace the weather adjectives by numerical values (1=snow, 2=rain,
3=cloudy, 4=sunny), and plot these values. Hide the "normal" axis labels,
and place textboxes along the axis with these labels.

Normally I propose a combination chart, such as this:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/Y_CategoryAxis.html

but a bubble chart doesn't do combos. However, you could add a bubble series
along the Y axis, then hide the bubbles (no border, no fill), as in the
above example.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com/
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