Comments on: Mind the Gap – Charting Empty Cells

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:53:59 +0000

If you have one or two gaps in one or two lines, I would agree with you.

If you have many gaps in many series, you would want something that worked more autonomously.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:49:16 +0000

Jason -

It’s probably easier, if you have to add a lot of extra points, to simply select the line segment in question and format it to use no line.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:43:34 +0000

A work-around I’ve just discovered to create the illustion of a line with a gap in an X-Y plot….

Use the method described above with the NA() formula to produce NA() for cells where you want a gap in your plot.

Then pad the data set so it is very dense at least in the non-gap areas.

Then create the plot with the style as “points” (without the connecting line).

If the points are all close enough together and the markers appropriately sized, they will produce the illusion of a continuous line in the non-gap area.

By: Daryl

Daryl — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:47:59 +0000

I’ve been banging my head against the problem for upwards of 40 hours….that problem begin, needing a chart that grows as data appears based on formulas in those cells, without the chart treating the future values as zero and providing false data in the chart.

THANK YOU!

By: Debbi Barnes-Josiah

Debbi Barnes-Josiah — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:56:03 +0000

Thank you, you dealt with exactly the problem I was looking to solve – Excel reading not-quite-blank cells as 0s. The NA() approach worked just fine!

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