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    Making More TIck Marks/Lables in a Graph

    Hi, Please see attached, I am looking through thousands of these, I need the horizontal axis to have WAY more labels, i.e. instead of going 31.46, 31.79 etc... I would want maybe 8 more horizontal axis THAT ARE LABELED between them .... ALSO I need a vertical line and label for the value of 4, preferably a darker line or red or something, can anyone teach me how to do this please? thanks

    p.s. how come when I hover my cursor over the line it doesn't tell me the value? It just says "Series Lines 1"
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    Re: Making More TIck Marks/Lables in a Graph

    The hover tip only says series 1 because the line is simply a line series between each of the bars.
    The scaling on the vertical axis is really a categorical one rather than numeric. In order to get more labels you would need to add more categorys/data points.

    I have filled the bars in on your example, in case you were not aware that was how the vertical line was being created.

    I think you need to be using a xy-scatter chart to get all the things you want.
    The red line on 4 is a second data series.
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    Re: Making More TIck Marks/Lables in a Graph

    Andy, this is really useful what you setup, can you describe the steps so I can do this myself? My concern is that I have 2,400 files like this and if it is a lengthy process it might double the time it takes me to go through them all, is there anyway I could somehow "automate" the process for all these files? (hope springs eternal, I know)

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    Re: Making More TIck Marks/Lables in a Graph

    You can automate it.

    here is some code to create a chart.

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    You can adapt this to work with other data sets on different sheets.
    It should be possible to automate all of the steps to handle 2400 files.

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