Calculate and display individual error bars for individual points

Generally error bars (standard deviations) vary point-by-point in a graph
depending on the distribution of individual values for each point. Excel can
calculate these separate standard deviations, but there appears to be no way
to display them in a graph. Has anyone found a way around this?

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You can easily apply custom error bars to a series. I describe how here:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ChartsHowTo/ErrorBars.html

- Jon
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"del" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Generally error bars (standard deviations) vary point-by-point in a graph
> depending on the distribution of individual values for each point. Excel
> can
> calculate these separate standard deviations, but there appears to be no
> way
> to display them in a graph. Has anyone found a way around this?
>