Please Help!! Excel driving me mad!

I didn't know which section to put this in. I have a general excel query, rather than a VBA one.

I'm running Excel 2000. I'm creating a series of charts, which are all 3D 100% stacked column jobbies. I have quite a few to create, all looking at identical blocks of data, all the same size and shape. To save me re-formatting the graph each time I create one, I'm simply copying an existing chart sheet and re-defining the source data range. When I get to graph number 4, the look of the graph suddenly changes. The stacked columns appear as thin as spagetti and there's absolutely no explanation or anything I can do about it! I've even tried copying the chart sheet and re-defining the source data to look at the same range it was looking at anyway, yet the chart still changes in appearance. When I go to format the x-axis, I'm presented with a completely different set of options to the other charts as well.

Unfortunately, i can't back my query up with any illustrations. Has anyone experienced this! I hate it when Excel just decides not to play with no logical explanation!!!

Thanks for any help, and I apologise if this is not the forum for these issues, but I can't think of anywhere else.

Keith

[1307 byte] By [Keithyboy1] at [2007-12-23]
# 1

I've managed to sort my own problem out, which is rather embarrasing considering my outburst on this forum of professionals.

All I did was to right click within the chart area and select Chart Options. In here, I selected the Axes tab. Under category x-axis, Automatic was selected. I changed this to Category and now it's fine. I checked all the previous charts and they're set to Automatic, which is odd. I don't know what happened when I got to chart number 4, but it doesn't like the Automatic option anymore.

Cheers!

Keith

Keithyboy1 at 2007-8-31 > top of Msdn Tech,Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums,Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)...
# 2

Chart 4 must have recognizable dates for its X values, so it was plotting one column per day, and you must have had data less frequently, say once per week. The other charts did not use recognizable dates.

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