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Way to visually offset data points/error bars for several series with same x axis values?

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    Way to visually offset data points/error bars for several series with same x axis values?

    I'm trying to make a simple line chart with data points and error bars. Currently each data point is overlapping the other for each series as well as the error bars such that the two cannot be visually distinguished. Is there a way to slightly offset each data point such that the points and error bars wont over lap? Please excuse my terrible drawing, ive included a screenshot of the chart, and drew in where I'd like the second series to lie.
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    Re: Way to visually offset data points/error bars for several series with same x axis valu

    Hello,
    Is this impossible to do in Excel? Should I perhaps looks at another graphing program?
    Thank you

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    Re: Way to visually offset data points/error bars for several series with same x axis valu

    That thumbnail-sized image was basically useless...

    Anyway are you creating a stock chart or a line chart or a scatter chart? (They all have different caveats).

    There are two things that I hypothesize could deliver results:

    1) Stretch out the axises manually.

    2) Add dummy numbers to the data to increase or create offset. This one is usually a bad idea.

    Rather than an image, would posting a copy of the spreadsheet as an example be possible?

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