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    Scaling the x-axis of excel scatter plot

    Hi,

    I have Excel 2010 and I want to change the scaling of the x axis of a scatter plot to represent seconds from "-10" to "30" in 5 second intervals...

    However, I want the data for "0" to be a certain time. For example, "0" should display the data 06:30:00 with its corresponding value, "5" should display 06:30:05 with its corresponding value and so on...

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    Any suggestions?

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    Re: Scaling the x-axis of excel scatter plot

    I'm not sure exactly how you want the plot to look.

    One approach would be to convert your "user defined" time scale to Excel's built in date/time serial numbers (see this to understand how Excel treats date/time data: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...674.aspx?CTT=1)
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    Re: Scaling the x-axis of excel scatter plot

    I am also not sure what you ment halt4814 . But may be it something like that;
    You have some entries which are in (excel) time format. Let's assume that they are in Column A.

    Then somewhere in your sheet you could put a formula similar to:
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    Use this extra column as your X values in the scatterplot (Y's remain the same).

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