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    Values for X-axis not correct

    Hi

    I want to make a simple scatter plot with one column beeing the values for the x-axis. When i click on "select data" in the diagramm i created it shows me that my column is being used as the x-axis, but in the diagramm that isn't the case and it just goes from 0 to 1000.
    Usually I just select my columns and create a scatter plot with lines and that works. But for some reasons in some files the x-axis isn't correct as described above.
    Any ideas why it isn't working for these few files and how I can fix it? I've attached screenshots of my graph and the "select date" window
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    Re: Values for X-axis not correct

    Hi and welcome to the forum.

    Pictures are rarely much help to us. That's the case here since its barely readable and in any case we generally like to see the actual workbook so that we can test any suggestions we may have. Please upoad it.
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    Re: Values for X-axis not correct

    Here is the file
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    Re: Values for X-axis not correct

    Cell A941 contains 9 spaces. Any text data in the X series will cause the scale to automatically default to a point count rather than the actual values.

    Also does your table really need to include all those rows?
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    Re: Values for X-axis not correct

    Oh, I dind't realise there were so many empty rows, I just marked the whole colum thinking it would automaticly end after the data. Not including all the empty ones fixed my problem, thanks a lot

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    Re: Values for X-axis not correct

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