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Adding vertical lines to a chart which has a data table

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    Adding vertical lines to a chart which has a data table

    Morning,
    I have a chart which plots data for a month and is seperated by days and dates. I need to put vertical lines on the chart to seperate the days, if I use vertical gridlines it puts a line for every date.

    At the moment I am having to draw the lines on manually which isn't much fun as I have to do it over 200 times.

    I have attached an example.

    Any help will be much appreciated - thanks.
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    this might help you

    I approached your problem undertaking the following steps

    1. right-clicked the data table and selected clear to remove the data table
    2. right-clicked the plot area and selected chart options
    3. on the Gridlines tab checked the Major gridlines check box for the X Axis
    3b. clicked OK
    4. right-clicked on the X axis gridlines and selected Format Gridlines
    5. changed the Number of categories between tickmarks to 4
    6. clicked OK
    7. right-clicked the plot area and selected chart options
    8. on the Data Table tab checked the Show data table check box
    9. clicked OK

    I think this is what you are looking for.

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    Thanks for that its certainly solved the problem for September but what happens in October which has 5 Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays but only 4 Thursdays and Fridays.

    Thanks again

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    uh OK

    can you post a sample of these other months?

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    I have attached October's data
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    ah now i see

    ultra vires,

    Gridlines will not do the trick. You may want to introduce a new series (X,Y) combined with 'dummy' error bars. See the following article for guidance.

    http://theclosetentrepreneur.com/how...excel-xy-chart

    HTH

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