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How do I make a simple 2-point line chart?

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    How do I make a simple 2-point line chart?

    This is a real noob question - how do I take two x/y co-ordinates such as 1,2 and 5,6 and put them in cells in such a way that when I highlight them and create a graph from them Excel will plot the two points and draw a line between them?

    At the moment, on 2013's default line chart setting, it's giving me two lines - one from 1,1 to 2,5 and the other line is from 1,2 to 2,6.


    Thank you.

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    Re: How do I make a simple 2-point line chart?

    Hi,

    Don't use the line chart, pick the second of the xy Scatter charts.
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    Re: How do I make a simple 2-point line chart?

    That did the trick! Thank you Richard, this one was driving me mad yet so simple to solve when you know what you're doing! :-)

    Thanks again :-)

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    Re: How do I make a simple 2-point line chart?

    Quote Originally Posted by helen269 View Post
    That did the trick! Thank you Richard, this one was driving me mad yet so simple to solve when you know what you're doing! :-)

    Thanks again :-)
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