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Date range plotting - Non linear date range

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    Date range plotting - Non linear date range

    Hello Forum,
    The scenario is as follows:
    Average temperature is taken for a room on non-linear intervals. Sometimes taken 15 mins apart, sometimes a couple hours passes between each time, and then no temperatures are taken throughout the night.

    I am attempting to show the temperature changes over a 24 hour period but as the data is placed on the graph, the distance between each point on the line are equal. (See attached graph)

    What I would like to see is somehow the date/time at the bottom of the graph should show its actual position instead of equally spaced.

    (In the attached worksheet "temperature-timeline.zip") The graph shows the First time stamp at 15:04 (24 hr clock), the Second time stamp is one minute later. The Third timestamp is 4 minutes after but when excel places the points on the chart, the 3 points are equally spaced.

    Is there any way for Excel to put these points in their relative positions instead of equally spaced apart?

    Ive attached a JPG (temperature-timeline.jpg) which I created in MSPAINT which shows exactly what type of graph I am looking to create.

    Thanks for any assistance.
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    Last edited by zhollett; 01-09-2009 at 03:55 PM. Reason: Solved

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    Hi,

    What kind of timeframe are you using for these graphs? If they are always from midnight to midnight for instance? Or 00:00 Monday to 23:59 Sunday?

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    Select the chart, do Chart > Chart Type, and change it to a scatter-plot.
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    Thanks shg.

    I was having troubles earlier with scatter because i had the date and temp columns reversed and didn't re-visit scatter again.

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