To select the plotarea either use the chart toolbar and select it from
the chart items droplist or select the chart and use the up/down cursor
keys to cycle thru the chart elements.
The problem might be that Excel keeps the size of the between-tick
spacing the same on the X and Y axes. If you have 5 X categories and 2 Y
categories, your chart will be much longer in the X direction than in
the Y. I have not found a good way to get around this, but if the data
is reasonably smooth, I might insert a range in the shorter dimension
and enter interpolated values, to stretch out the axis.
- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services
Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/
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