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    Error bars not displaying

    Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3.
    I have data that looks like this:
    Median Min Max
    Na 0.032617 0.000106 0.387142
    Cl 0.0265 0.000017 0.282087
    Ca 0.000524 0.0000047 0.0059883
    K 0.005523 0.000007 0.038365
    Mg 0.0000823 0.0000001 0.0018515
    PO4 0.00031 0.00002 0.00105
    HCO3 0.001655 0.000262 0.003048
    I'm doing a line plot with the first column as the categorical x axis,
    and the second column, median, on the y-axis, which is logarithmic. I
    then set up error bars using the values in the min and max column
    (columns 3 and 4 above) as custom values in the "error amount" part of
    the format data series dialog. The max values would be for the plus
    side of the error bar, and the min values are for the minus side.

    I thought this would work perfectly, however, only the plus side of the
    error bar is showing up, not the minus side. And in the format data
    series dialog I DO have it set to show both.

    So, I was wondering if anyone had run into this before, and if there is
    a reason and a solution. I want the minus part of the error bars to
    show.

    Thank you,
    Nicole


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    Herbert Seidenberg
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    Re: Error bars not displaying

    Create two new columns for the positive and negative error amount
    =Max-Median
    =Median-Min


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