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How to refine my x-axis dates units to show the actual x-axis dates from the series?

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    How to refine my x-axis dates units to show the actual x-axis dates from the series?

    Hi there, I'm still researching the archives, but in the meantime:

    I have a chart (it works as both a line AND a scatter) with this column of dates shown as the x-axis:

    5/6
    5/13
    5/20
    5/21
    5/27
    6/3
    6/4
    6/10
    6/17
    6/24
    6/25



    1. these are formatted cells as dates
    2. the chart format (x axis) shows them as dates also)
    3. The major (i believe that is the term) units showing on the x-axis are:

    4/27 5/7 5/17 5/27 6/6 6/16 6/26 7/6

    I realize some of my dates are not evenly spaced. These are weekend events (saturday) with an occasional Sunday here and there: (see, 5/21, 6/4, 6/25).

    Without going increments of "1" which is really overkill, can I get the dates that are at least evenly spaced (7 days) to show on the axis?

    Does this involve creating a new source of data for the x-axis and then putting my chart x / y values onto that?

    Or, since all the data points over 10 series fall on the exact same dates, is there a way to perhaps get a vertical line pass through the data points and essentially "point" at the location on the x-axis?

    Thank you.
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    Re: How to refine my x-axis dates units to show the actual x-axis dates from the series?

    Without going increments of "1" which is really overkill, can I get the dates that are at least evenly spaced (7 days) to show on the axis?
    I'm sure you can, but it will likely depend on whether you have a line chart (with a date axis) or a scatter chart (with a value axis). If I follow your description, it looks like the current major unit is 10 days. Can you simply change that to be 7 days in the format axis dialog?
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    Re: How to refine my x-axis dates units to show the actual x-axis dates from the series?

    Thanks for the reply.

    It actually works better on the x axis (i can set 7 days) and just deal with those two extra "sundays" if I leave it as a line chart and not a scatter. But it seems to work well as both. I didn't think that was possible.

    My y-axis data is in the format: mm:ss.00, time values.

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