Excel should display linear equation of line drawn on graph.

Make a graph (chart), draw a straight line on the graph. So what's the slope
and the intercept? An option to display the linear equation would quickly
reveal both.

Excel cells should be able to directly link to precise values of the
coefficients of the equations displayed in a graph. I can't say how many
times I've modeled a best fit only to find that a coefficient changed when my
original data changed or that a manual entered coefficient wasn't precise
enough and yielded a bad fit equation.

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"landen99" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Make a graph (chart), draw a straight line on the graph. So what's the
> slope
> and the intercept? An option to display the linear equation would quickly
> reveal both.
>
> Excel cells should be able to directly link to precise values of the
> coefficients of the equations displayed in a graph. I can't say how many
> times I've modeled a best fit only to find that a coefficient changed when
> my
> original data changed or that a manual entered coefficient wasn't precise
> enough and yielded a bad fit equation.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...excel.charting

If that straight line was a trendline, then there is already an option
to display the equation (on the Options tab of the Add Trendline
dialog), you just didn't use it.

If you mean that you want to see equations for each line segment that
connects two points, that would be a bit busy, since there is no
guarantee that more than two points will lie on the same straight line.

Jerry

landen99 wrote:

> Make a graph (chart), draw a straight line on the graph. So what's the slope
> and the intercept? An option to display the linear equation would quickly
> reveal both.
>
> Excel cells should be able to directly link to precise values of the
> coefficients of the equations displayed in a graph. I can't say how many
> times I've modeled a best fit only to find that a coefficient changed when my
> original data changed or that a manual entered coefficient wasn't precise
> enough and yielded a bad fit equation.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...excel.charting
>