Hi everybody! (“Hi, Dr. Nick!”)
Ms. Compy Fix-It here, with another workaround for all you folks wrestling with Excel 2007’s quirks. This one is to do with Excel ignoring your pretty horizontal axis and deciding to do its own thing……
So let’s start off with my chart:
This looks okay to me. But say I’d done some resizing within my Whole Chart Area and things have moved around a bit.
Whoops, that looks ugly! The horizontal axis label’s on top of the legend and we can’t have that. So, I’m going to resize the Inner Chart Area to move it up, right? Well watch what happens.
Wait, since when did my data become negative?
I initially thought it had to do with the way I resized it. I even drew a chart to figure out whether it was the Inner Chart Area or the Outer Chart Area resizing that made it a problem. Turns out the problem is partially about resizing and partially about this:
Ugh! So then I zoomed in to 100% and it fixed my chart……… but guess what? My other charts started messing up their horizontal axis-crossing data!
So…… turns out I don’t know a fool-proof method for getting rid of this quirk. However, I do know that sometimes altering the Inner Chart Area and/or the Outer Chart Area can fix it, and other times the Zoom can fix it.
If you know why this is and can help us all out, please leave a comment!
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