excel chart plot area not showing data

am I missing some part of excel as I cannot make a chart ( even the simple
ones) the points do not show in the plot area, ( or maybe I am doing some
thing really stupid...it sure feels that way at this point!

One possibility is that the "numbers" you are trying to plot are really
text. What does =COUNT(xRange) and =COUNT(yRange) return? If zero,
Excel is not recognizing any numbers.

In that case, copy a blank cell, select the ranges in question, and
Edit|Paste Special|Add to coerce text to numbers.

Jerry

samm wrote:

> am I missing some part of excel as I cannot make a chart ( even the simple
> ones) the points do not show in the plot area, ( or maybe I am doing some
> thing really stupid...it sure feels that way at this point!