Of the five types of scatter chart types in the Change Chart Type dialog shown in
Figure 5.8, four are dots joined using lines.
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Figure 5.7
Relevant labels for XY
charts are an asset.Why
does Microsoft make it so
hard to add them?
Figure 5.8
Most of the scatter
charts are dots joined
with lines.
However, whereas the dot version of a scatter chart can be sequenced in any order, chaos
results if you try to join the dots with lines. In Figure 5.9, a familiar curve turns to
spaghetti when the dots are joined with lines.
Figure 5.9
Chaos results when an
unsorted ...
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