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		<title>By: Jeff Fose</title>
		<link>http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/line-charts-vs-xy-charts/comment-page-1/#comment-23282</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Fose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent post about the differences in line vs xy charts.  I had a trendline polynomial problems that wasn&#039;t explained anywhere else.  Thanks for the insight</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent post about the differences in line vs xy charts.  I had a trendline polynomial problems that wasn&#8217;t explained anywhere else.  Thanks for the insight</p>
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		<title>By: Jon Peltier</title>
		<link>http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/line-charts-vs-xy-charts/comment-page-1/#comment-14514</link>
		<dc:creator>Jon Peltier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 22:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Chart Labeler isn&#039;t required, but without it, the process is very tedious.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Chart Labeler isn&#8217;t required, but without it, the process is very tedious.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff W</title>
		<link>http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/line-charts-vs-xy-charts/comment-page-1/#comment-14511</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 20:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you!  That is very nice.  I do need to work though it, and I will report back.

”ddd-d-mmm” is going to be a little cumbersome.  Maybe I can put it on 2 lines

TEXT(D2,”ddd&quot;)&amp;CHAR(10)&amp;(D2,&quot;d-mmm”) ?  Then, I might move the second 2 lines up into the lower region of the graph and below my y data (not shown here.

I forgot that the chart labeler was needed to use a column of labels.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you!  That is very nice.  I do need to work though it, and I will report back.</p>
<p>”ddd-d-mmm” is going to be a little cumbersome.  Maybe I can put it on 2 lines</p>
<p>TEXT(D2,”ddd&#8221;)&amp;CHAR(10)&amp;(D2,&#8221;d-mmm”) ?  Then, I might move the second 2 lines up into the lower region of the graph and below my y data (not shown here.</p>
<p>I forgot that the chart labeler was needed to use a column of labels.</p>
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		<title>By: Jon Peltier</title>
		<link>http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/line-charts-vs-xy-charts/comment-page-1/#comment-14498</link>
		<dc:creator>Jon Peltier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 12:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s no weeks item in the sequence Years-Months-Days. To show weeks you would just have to use a tick spacing of 7 days.

I&#039;m not sure what you&#039;re really trying, but this might be it.

Here&#039;s the data range. Columns 1 and 2 are X (the date) and Y (zero to sit on the axis). Columns D-F are your labels, and column C is a concatenated label, which uses this formula:

=TEXT(D2,&quot;d-mmm&quot;)&amp;CHAR(10)&amp;E2&amp;CHAR(10)&amp;F2

It puts the date first, using TEXT to apply a format to the date (or else it would be just a number. like 39941). CHAR(10) tells Excel to use the 10th character in the ASCII character set to add a line break.
&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://peltiertech.com/images/2009-05/JeffAxisData.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

I have no idea what else is in your chart, but here is a blank chart with your data points from this table added on top of the default time scale axis using the X and Y values in the table.
&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://peltiertech.com/images/2009-05/JeffAxisOrig.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Here I&#039;ve hidden the default axis tick labels, and added labels to the series added above. Use &lt;a href=&quot;http://appspro.com/Utilities/ChartLabeler.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rob Bovey&#039;s Chart Labeler&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://peltiertech.com/images/2009-05/JeffAxisLabels.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Finally, you can hide the default axis tick marks and use black crosses to simulate axis ticks.
&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://peltiertech.com/images/2009-05/JeffAxisLabels2.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s no weeks item in the sequence Years-Months-Days. To show weeks you would just have to use a tick spacing of 7 days.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure what you&#8217;re really trying, but this might be it.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the data range. Columns 1 and 2 are X (the date) and Y (zero to sit on the axis). Columns D-F are your labels, and column C is a concatenated label, which uses this formula:</p>
<p>=TEXT(D2,&#8221;d-mmm&#8221;)&#038;CHAR(10)&#038;E2&#038;CHAR(10)&#038;F2</p>
<p>It puts the date first, using TEXT to apply a format to the date (or else it would be just a number. like 39941). CHAR(10) tells Excel to use the 10th character in the ASCII character set to add a line break.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://peltiertech.com/images/2009-05/JeffAxisData.png" /></p>
<p>I have no idea what else is in your chart, but here is a blank chart with your data points from this table added on top of the default time scale axis using the X and Y values in the table.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://peltiertech.com/images/2009-05/JeffAxisOrig.png" /></p>
<p>Here I&#8217;ve hidden the default axis tick labels, and added labels to the series added above. Use <a href="http://appspro.com/Utilities/ChartLabeler.htm" rel="nofollow">Rob Bovey&#8217;s Chart Labeler</a></p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://peltiertech.com/images/2009-05/JeffAxisLabels.png" /></p>
<p>Finally, you can hide the default axis tick marks and use black crosses to simulate axis ticks.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://peltiertech.com/images/2009-05/JeffAxisLabels2.png" /></p>
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		<title>By: Jeff W</title>
		<link>http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/line-charts-vs-xy-charts/comment-page-1/#comment-14489</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 05:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>XY with date, then line chart w dummy series?  Line chart w date scale doesn&#039;t have the weeks/days hierarchy (no weeks at all).  Don&#039;t yet have control of the features.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>XY with date, then line chart w dummy series?  Line chart w date scale doesn&#8217;t have the weeks/days hierarchy (no weeks at all).  Don&#8217;t yet have control of the features.</p>
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		<title>By: Jon Peltier</title>
		<link>http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/line-charts-vs-xy-charts/comment-page-1/#comment-14412</link>
		<dc:creator>Jon Peltier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 19:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jeff -

You could use the date for the axis, then place points along the axis using a dummy series (a line chart series with no markers or lines) and apply data labels to these points.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeff -</p>
<p>You could use the date for the axis, then place points along the axis using a dummy series (a line chart series with no markers or lines) and apply data labels to these points.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff W</title>
		<link>http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/line-charts-vs-xy-charts/comment-page-1/#comment-14352</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 01:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Date	&#124;&#124; time left &#124;&#124;	count
Mon, 25 May	&#124;&#124; 10 wk 3 d &#124;&#124;	21
Fri, 29 May	 &#124;&#124; 9 wk 5 d &#124;&#124;	19
Mon, 1 Jun	 &#124;&#124; 9 wk 0 d &#124;&#124;	17</description>
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Mon, 25 May	|| 10 wk 3 d ||	21<br />
Fri, 29 May	 || 9 wk 5 d ||	19<br />
Mon, 1 Jun	 || 9 wk 0 d ||	17</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff W</title>
		<link>http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/line-charts-vs-xy-charts/comment-page-1/#comment-14350</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 01:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am counting down time of 18 sequential events in three columns as folows: 

Date	            time left	count
Fri, 8 May	10 wk 3 d	21
Wed, 13 May	9 wk 5 d	19
Mon, 18 May	9 wk 0 d	17
Fri, 22 May	8 wk 3 d	15
Mon, 25 May	8 wk 0 d	14
Fri, 29 May	7 wk 3 d	13
Mon, 1 Jun	7 wk 0 d	12
Fri, 5 Jun	6 wk 3 d	11
Mon, 8 Jun	6 wk 0 d	10
Fri, 12 Jun	5 wk 3 d	9
Mon, 15 Jun	5 wk 0 d	8
Fri, 19 Jun	4 wk 3 d	7
Mon, 22 Jun	4 wk 0 d	6
Fri, 26 Jun	3 wk 3 d	5
Mon, 29 Jun	3 wk 0 d	4
Fri, 3 Jul	2 wk 3 d	3
Mon, 6 Jul	2 wk 0 d	2
Fri, 10 Jul	1 wk 3 d	last one

Notice uneven intervals and events (20, 18, 16) not to be reported.  This is all x-axis data to track numeric values on the y-axis.  Is it possible to make a week/day scale that will space the date intervals and list the date and count values (Date    count)? 

I also have some special text labels to apply to the data points.  Is it possible to list the value and text label (Value    Text label)?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am counting down time of 18 sequential events in three columns as folows: </p>
<p>Date	            time left	count<br />
Fri, 8 May	10 wk 3 d	21<br />
Wed, 13 May	9 wk 5 d	19<br />
Mon, 18 May	9 wk 0 d	17<br />
Fri, 22 May	8 wk 3 d	15<br />
Mon, 25 May	8 wk 0 d	14<br />
Fri, 29 May	7 wk 3 d	13<br />
Mon, 1 Jun	7 wk 0 d	12<br />
Fri, 5 Jun	6 wk 3 d	11<br />
Mon, 8 Jun	6 wk 0 d	10<br />
Fri, 12 Jun	5 wk 3 d	9<br />
Mon, 15 Jun	5 wk 0 d	8<br />
Fri, 19 Jun	4 wk 3 d	7<br />
Mon, 22 Jun	4 wk 0 d	6<br />
Fri, 26 Jun	3 wk 3 d	5<br />
Mon, 29 Jun	3 wk 0 d	4<br />
Fri, 3 Jul	2 wk 3 d	3<br />
Mon, 6 Jul	2 wk 0 d	2<br />
Fri, 10 Jul	1 wk 3 d	last one</p>
<p>Notice uneven intervals and events (20, 18, 16) not to be reported.  This is all x-axis data to track numeric values on the y-axis.  Is it possible to make a week/day scale that will space the date intervals and list the date and count values (Date    count)? </p>
<p>I also have some special text labels to apply to the data points.  Is it possible to list the value and text label (Value    Text label)?</p>
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		<title>By: Line Charts vs. XY Charts - Learn Excel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Line Charts vs. XY Charts - Learn Excel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Original post by Jon Peltier [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Original post by Jon Peltier [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Jon Peltier</title>
		<link>http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/line-charts-vs-xy-charts/comment-page-1/#comment-2215</link>
		<dc:creator>Jon Peltier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tim - Thanks for the example, which I&#039;ve appended to your comment. Tune in soon for a related blog post about bad (and good) smoothed lines.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tim &#8211; Thanks for the example, which I&#8217;ve appended to your comment. Tune in soon for a related blog post about bad (and good) smoothed lines.</p>
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