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Old March 2nd, 2004, 11:55 PM
lynn
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Default problems with scatter plot

Is it possible to create a scatter plot using a range of
data but have it ignore a cell if it's blank ? I have a
range of data copied @ pasted from another source.
The 'blank' cells seem to be behaving as zeros, resulting
in a problem with the scatter plot. If I click in the
blank cell and delete, the plot reports correctly. I'm not
going to be able to manually remove the blanks, however.
Is there a way I can have Excel ignore the blanks when
creating the chart ? Using excel 2002
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Old March 3rd, 2004, 04:19 PM
lynn
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Default problems with scatter plot

Thanks - works great !


-----Original Message-----
lynn,

There are possibly unprintable characters or spaces in

the blank cells
that you are working with.

Let us say you are pasting values for the scatter graph

based on cells
A1:B10.
Now enter the following formula in c1 and copy to c1:d10

=IF(ISERROR(VALUE(a1)),NA(),a1)

Create the scatter graph based on c1:d10 instead of

a1:b10 but continue
to paste to a1:b10

This should prevent blanks and other characters from

showing up as
zeros.

- Lenin


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