Simple scatter style chart help

[Guest]

Hi, this may get the stupid post of the day award! But I hope someone can
point me in the right direction, I am trying to create a simple chart. That
will read from just two sets of data.

for example:
X Y
A 210 5
B 350 7
C 422 10
D 100 3
E 127 6
F 499 1

So using the above data, I would like to create a chart that will place a
single marker for where each of the points meet for A B C etc. When I try
using scatter charts I get two points for each line (ie A, B etc)

Thank for any help or direction
regards
Andy

 

[Andy Pope]

Hi,

Create your xy-scatter chart using the chart wizard but only select the
actual xy values when you do it.

If you then want to have data labels which display A, B, C etc you will
need to either link the data labels to the cells manually.
http://www.andypope.info/tips/tip001.htm

Or better still use one of these free addin.

Rob Bovey's XY Chart Labeler from
http://www.appspro.com/Utilities/ChartLabeler.htm and

John Walkenbach's Chart Tools
http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/files/charttools.htm

Cheers
Andy