{"id":7706,"date":"2012-07-12T20:34:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T00:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7706"},"modified":"2012-07-12T20:34:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T00:34:23","slug":"independent-date-x-axis-in-excel-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/12\/independent-date-x-axis-in-excel-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent date x-axis in Excel charts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ask Metafilter question “Basic line graph<\/a>” spurred me to make this unpretty graph:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here are the input data:<\/p>\n

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You need to make an X-Y (Scatter) plot. All others don’t have fully independent X-axes. Make your chart by selecting the first two data columns, then Insert Chart<\/em>. Once the chart is in, right click\/Control-click (OS X) to get this context menu:<\/p>\n

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which should show<\/p>\n

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You can add more data series by hitting Add<\/em>. Here are the specs for the next two series:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, here’s the example spreadsheet: MultipleDateLinesChart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ask Metafilter question “Basic line graph” spurred me to make this unpretty graph: Here are the input data: You need to make an X-Y (Scatter) plot. All others don’t have fully independent X-axes. Make your chart by selecting the first two data columns, then Insert Chart. Once the chart is in, right click\/Control-click (OS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[2308,255,313,1429],"class_list":["post-7706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-chart","tag-excel","tag-metafilter","tag-microsoft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-20i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7714,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions\/7714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}