Why does Excel line chart cut off my data series?

This does not happen with other chart forms, including radar. I am trying to
create a 3 series chart with data points for each day over a 3 week period.
Sometimes get the message that chart can only use 32000 data points, but this
is well under that limit. This has not happened before. What is going
wrong? (...or what am I doing wrong?) Not a stranger to Excel, though not a
power user, but never had this problem before.

Will reinstall the program as soon as I find the disk (just moved office).

You haven't described what you mean by "cut off".

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
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"snowbound" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> This does not happen with other chart forms, including radar. I am trying
> to
> create a 3 series chart with data points for each day over a 3 week
> period.
> Sometimes get the message that chart can only use 32000 data points, but
> this
> is well under that limit. This has not happened before. What is going
> wrong? (...or what am I doing wrong?) Not a stranger to Excel, though not
> a
> power user, but never had this problem before.
>
> Will reinstall the program as soon as I find the disk (just moved office).

The data series will show up to a certain point, then stops. In this case,
it stops at day 12, though there are 21 days of data. The chart is complete
in other respects (ie, the x and y axes both extend to the desired values).
The data sets will display all 21 days in other chart forms.

I hope this is the information you were looking for

"Jon Peltier" wrote:

> You haven't described what you mean by "cut off".
>
> - Jon
> -------
> Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
> Tutorials and Custom Solutions
> http://PeltierTech.com
> _______
>
>
> "snowbound" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > This does not happen with other chart forms, including radar. I am trying
> > to
> > create a 3 series chart with data points for each day over a 3 week
> > period.
> > Sometimes get the message that chart can only use 32000 data points, but
> > this
> > is well under that limit. This has not happened before. What is going
> > wrong? (...or what am I doing wrong?) Not a stranger to Excel, though not
> > a
> > power user, but never had this problem before.
> >
> > Will reinstall the program as soon as I find the disk (just moved office).
>
>
>

Go to Source Data on the Chart menu. Click on the Series tab. Select the
"cut off" series. Are the complete ranges shown in the X values and Y values
boxes?

- Jon
-------
Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
_______


"snowbound" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> The data series will show up to a certain point, then stops. In this
> case,
> it stops at day 12, though there are 21 days of data. The chart is
> complete
> in other respects (ie, the x and y axes both extend to the desired
> values).
> The data sets will display all 21 days in other chart forms.
>
> I hope this is the information you were looking for
>
> "Jon Peltier" wrote:
>
>> You haven't described what you mean by "cut off".
>>
>> - Jon
>> -------
>> Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
>> Tutorials and Custom Solutions
>> http://PeltierTech.com
>> _______
>>
>>
>> "snowbound" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> > This does not happen with other chart forms, including radar. I am
>> > trying
>> > to
>> > create a 3 series chart with data points for each day over a 3 week
>> > period.
>> > Sometimes get the message that chart can only use 32000 data points,
>> > but
>> > this
>> > is well under that limit. This has not happened before. What is going
>> > wrong? (...or what am I doing wrong?) Not a stranger to Excel, though
>> > not
>> > a
>> > power user, but never had this problem before.
>> >
>> > Will reinstall the program as soon as I find the disk (just moved
>> > office).
>>
>>
>>

I am assuming you mean value ranges. Yes. This was one of the first things
I checked. Also checked data range. Still getting message that 2D charts
are limited to 32000 data points. Am nowhere close to that! I have tried
recreating chart several times with similar results. BAffled.

"Jon Peltier" wrote:

> Go to Source Data on the Chart menu. Click on the Series tab. Select the
> "cut off" series. Are the complete ranges shown in the X values and Y values
> boxes?
>
> - Jon
> -------
> Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
> Tutorials and Custom Solutions
> http://PeltierTech.com
> _______
>
>
> "snowbound" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > The data series will show up to a certain point, then stops. In this
> > case,
> > it stops at day 12, though there are 21 days of data. The chart is
> > complete
> > in other respects (ie, the x and y axes both extend to the desired
> > values).
> > The data sets will display all 21 days in other chart forms.
> >
> > I hope this is the information you were looking for
> >
> > "Jon Peltier" wrote:
> >
> >> You haven't described what you mean by "cut off".
> >>
> >> - Jon
> >> -------
> >> Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
> >> Tutorials and Custom Solutions
> >> http://PeltierTech.com
> >> _______
> >>
> >>
> >> "snowbound" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >> news:[email protected]...
> >> > This does not happen with other chart forms, including radar. I am
> >> > trying
> >> > to
> >> > create a 3 series chart with data points for each day over a 3 week
> >> > period.
> >> > Sometimes get the message that chart can only use 32000 data points,
> >> > but
> >> > this
> >> > is well under that limit. This has not happened before. What is going
> >> > wrong? (...or what am I doing wrong?) Not a stranger to Excel, though
> >> > not
> >> > a
> >> > power user, but never had this problem before.
> >> >
> >> > Will reinstall the program as soon as I find the disk (just moved
> >> > office).
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

I know this is an old thread, but thought I'd post a response anyway. I ran into a similar issue recently for a Combo chart (three series on one chart). One of the three series has a value range that's much higher than the other two, so the corresponding line would hit the top of the chart. To fix this, I had to increase the max value for my secondary axis. Hope this helps!