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Line or scatter chart?

Ah, the great questions of life: Paper or plastic? Line chart or scatter chart? Choosing the wrong chart type for your data can easily happen when it comes to line and scatter charts. They look very similar, especially when a scatter chart is displayed with connecting lines, but there is a big difference in the way each of these chart types plots data along the horizontal and vertical axes. Let Excel writer Frederique be your guide as to which type of chart to use and when. ...( read more ) Read More...

Read the complete post at http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-excel/archive/2011/08/30/line-or-scatter-chart.aspx


Posted Aug 30 2011, 03:00 AM by Excel Blog
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