This is going to sound odd, but I want to know if there is a way to make a sort of storyboard using Excel charts.

I would need the x-axis to be days and then scenes. For instance, Day 1 Scene 1, Day 1 Scene 2, Day 1 Scene 3, Day 2 Scene 1, Day 2 Scene 2, etc.

The chart's y-axis would be composed of characters and would consist entirely of a straight line with plot pointed on the line. They would have to be stacked, of course -- imagine a straight line along the 1, along the 2, along the 3. The only difference is the 1 would be Falchek and the 2 would be Kisten and the 3 would be Laid. Etc.

The problem, of course, is that I'd want to set boxes of text to appear at certain points instead of simple dots. And I have no idea if it is possible to make line charts that are stacked on top of each other like that. It's basically going to be straight lines running across the chart with random chunks of text plotted across the y-axis. And I don't know how to plot more than one point along a y-axis value, because certain scenes have more than one character, so I'd need a chunk of text for Laid and another for Keat plotted on the y-axis mark for Day 1, Scene 1.

Does any of this make sense?

Here is an image to show the sort of thing I'm trying to get at (obviously, red is Character 1 and blue is Character 2):

http://www.geocities.com/inpariswithyou/Image1.gif