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How to get Excel to ignore holes in your data

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litho

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Jul 11, 2001
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Hi

When I create a data set and want to graph it in excel I quite often have some missing points. How can I get Excel to ignore these points when drawing the graph..?

 
Control the way empty cells are plotted in a chart
Click the chart.


On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Chart tab.


Under Plot empty cells as, click the option you want.
For Help on an option, click the question mark and then click the option.

you will want interpolated...

good luck :)
 
Hi

Thansk for the advice. It does not seem to work with a surface plot in 3 D. Any empty cells appear to be plotted as zero no matter what it is set to..

It works with a simple plot, for example a scatter plot that you plot with lines joining the dots.
 
you could write a formula to interpolate the data points then graph those instead...say maybe using the forcast function or trend function
 
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