Congratulations on your progress so far!

It sounds like you want to get up to speed with Charting.

I suggest you reserve some hours and look through:

Jon Peltier's site:
http://www.peltiertech.com/index.html

Andy Pope's site:
http://www.andypope.info/charts.htm


--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"Jack144" <Jack144@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am on a diet and would like to make a spreadsheet to help track my
> progress. I weigh in every morning and I now have about one month's worth
> of
> data, so I am anxious to get started - the problem is that I know almost
> nothing about Excel. I have bought a book, Show Me, which hasn't helped
> me
> much.
> More specifically I have a year-long plan. (Yes, I got that column figured
> out - and I can live with 30-day months) So, I have a beginning number
> (weight on January 1) and an end number (goal weight for December 30) I
> plan
> to enter my weight each day and would like to have the spreadsheet
> calculate
> how I am doing (the number of pounds, + or -, [above or below] the
> predicted
> weight that I should be at on that day - assuming a linear weight loss of
> 60
> lbs from the first day to the last day - 360 days later) OK, so I am
> compulsive, but it's working! I lost over 10 pounds already. Put on a
> pound
> or two and it shows up right away.
> I have messed with the Graph Wizard and even trend lines - I love this
> program, but I need a jump start. Any sympathetic gurus out there?
>