Re: Excel 4.0 graphics

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From: A.D.Bailey
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 15:38

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In article <4381@sapwdf.UUCP> ralph@sapwdf.UUCP (Ralph Treitz) writes:
>I'm not able to find anything in TFM of Excel about the right scaling of
>graphics.
>
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>
>Going to paint a diagramm Excel takes the first coloumn to be x but uses 
>equal space between each x-axis value. Thus the space for 1 - 2 is equal
>to the space between 10 - 20 which I would like to see correct according to 
>size of x-axis values. 
>
>Any quick hint ?
>

Sounds to me like you are generating the wrong sort of graph.
Try an XY (scatter or line) plot instead of a column plot.
Try to read TFM and understand the difference between a
CATEGORY axis and a VALUE axis.
Good Luck.

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Subject: Re: Excel 4.0 graphics
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