Discreet jump

[Arne Hegefors]

Hi! I have a normal line chart. The data is in a matrix. My data is on an
annual basis. I want the chart to show discreet jumps in the line but xl
somehow manages to make them not show a vertical jump but it is a gradually
shift. this is regardless of which chart i choose. how can i get the shifts
in the line to be a straight verical shift? thanks!

 

[Andy Pope]

Hi,

Step charts are not built in to excel but you can fake them.
See here, includes links to alternative sites and methods.
http://www.andypope.info/charts/stepchart.htm

Cheers
Andy

 

[William Horton]

Perhaps I don't understand you request but maybe a bar chart with a gap width
of 0 is what you are looking for rather than a line chart.

 

[ShaneDevenshire]

Hi Arne,

All the methods presented by Andy use numbers as the X-axis entries, if this
none of these solutions work for you let us know, there is a way to do a step
chart with regular "text" labels. (one way is to create a dummy series for
the axis, a second way is to set up your data differently.)

I will expand on either of these IF you need them - after I get home from
work.