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bmarsh
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 Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject: Scaling of the X-axis |
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Way back in the day of version 1.4 or maybe earlier, I created a chart in OO
and it seemed to be an easy task, and came out very nicely. I haven't been
able to do this since.
The chart I am trying to make has dates on the X-axis and when using the
auto-format, the chart that is created places every date (perhaps several
hundred) at each data point. It does not 'scale'.
After long trial and error, I determined that on a chart I kept from the
(much) earlier version of OO has a tab in the X properties for 'scale' but
any chart made with the later versions does not. Without the SCALE tab, the
graphs are pretty useless.
Is there a way to get the SCALE tab to return to the X-axis as well as the
Y-axis?
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jrkrideau
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| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:02 am Post subject: Re: Scaling of the X-axis |
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| bmarsh wrote: | Way back in the day of version 1.4 or maybe earlier, I created a chart in OO
and it seemed to be an easy task, and came out very nicely. I haven't been
able to do this since.
The chart I am trying to make has dates on the X-axis and when using the
auto-format, the chart that is created places every date (perhaps several
hundred) at each data point. It does not 'scale'.
After long trial and error, I determined that on a chart I kept from the
(much) earlier version of OO has a tab in the X properties for 'scale' but
any chart made with the later versions does not. Without the SCALE tab, the
graphs are pretty useless.
Is there a way to get the SCALE tab to return to the X-axis as well as the
Y-axis?
Thanks. |
You should be able to scale an XY graph with no problem just as you do a y-axis, that is, with a Scale tab when editing the x-axis. It sounds to me as if you have used the Line Chart option rather than the XY graph. This gives you an catagorical x-axis (analogous to a bar chart) and thus you cannot scale it.
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bmarsh
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| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| Well, you are right. If I pick an XY chart, the X axis has the SCALE tab. So I can't get X to scale with a line chart? Strange. My older chart *was* a line chart and the X axis has the scale tab. I'm still using the old file (in 2.0.2) and just modifying the data. A weird way to have to deal with the problem. |
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jrkrideau
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| bmarsh wrote: | | Well, you are right. If I pick an XY chart, the X axis has the SCALE tab. So I can't get X to scale with a line chart? Strange. My older chart *was* a line chart and the X axis has the scale tab. I'm still using the old file (in 2.0.2) and just modifying the data. A weird way to have to deal with the problem. |
All I can think of is that the Chart funtions in Calc are a moving target and this must have changed. Logically you should not be able to scale the x-axis in a line chart since it is actually graphing numbers against categories. The chart does not know the difference between the catagories 1,2,3 and Man, Horse, Dog. It is hard to scale the latter categories  .
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