Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!193.141.40.65.MISMATCH!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx10.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets Subject: Re: Creating a Simple Chart References: <87le31o0nu.fsf@sc1f1dan.com> Message-ID: <874j9cj1cd.fsf@raspberrypi> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tmJYGxhjRPKMT683LOpCpJtymPw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 38 X-Complaints-To: abuse(at)newshosting.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 19:48:06 UTC Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:48:02 -0700 X-Received-Bytes: 2215 Xref: csiph.com comp.apps.spreadsheets:98 Mike Copeland writes: > In article <87le31o0nu.fsf@sc1f1dan.com>, me@sc1f1dan.com says... >> >> Mike Copeland writes: >> >> > I have an Excel spreadsheet with the following data (and other >> > columns, too) from which I want to create some sort of chart. >> > After trying Google and the Excel help topics on Chart, I am unable to >> > follow the simplest directions...because the suggested steps don't work. >> > Specifically, after selecting a data I want and clicking the Insert tab, >> > the options in the "Charts" group are all greyed out excdept for the >> > "PivotChart". Nothing I try gets past this; no options are available. >> > Please advise. TIS >> > >> > January 3.749 >> > February 3.849 >> > March 4.749 >> > April 5.249 >> > May 5.249 >> > June 4.949 >> > July 4.249 >> > August 4.149 >> >> Is it too late to answer your question? I know it's like... forever ago >> but I just joined this ng and saw your post. > > Not too late as far as I'm concerned. I never got an answer for it > (perhaps my query was deemed too simple to answer...), and I'd still > like to know how to do it. TIA Well, I'm no pro on excel but then I'm not a newb either. Distilling what you're asking, that bit of data from the three columns, you'd like to put on a chart and the wizard is giving you a hard time? Is the pivotchart part of the data selected? Daniel