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how to create a stair step chart
I'm trying to create a chart that looks like a flight of stairs going from
the lower left of the page to the upper right of the page. I've looked in the templates online, but I don't see any. Can someone help me? |
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how to create a stair step chart
Ronica wrote:
I'm trying to create a chart that looks like a flight of stairs going from the lower left of the page to the upper right of the page. I've looked in the templates online, but I don't see any. Can someone help me? Assuming you're using the Chart object (Insert Object Microsoft Graph Chart): - Click just inside the shaded box, right-click, and select Chart Type. In the dialog, choose an XY(Scatter) type, and choose the subtype of "Scatter with points connected by lines without markers" (the bottom-right one). Click OK. - (Optional) Right-click one of the grid lines in the chart, select Format Gridlines, and change its color, weight, style, etc. - In the data sheet, start by typing each X value twice; for example, X value 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 - Below each X value, type a Y value. Again, each value is entered twice, but offset like this: X value 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 XY 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 This pattern forms the stair step: two Y values with the same X value, two X values with the same Y value, repeat as needed. This kind of pattern can also be created in an Excel chart and imported or linked into a Word document. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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how to create a stair step chart
An alternative method is to create a table with the required number of rows
and columns and apply borders selectively. This has the advantages of (a) not being an OLE object and (b) allowing you to insert text on the steps if desired. It took me about a minute and a half to create seven steps this way. It would have been MUCH faster (less than 30 seconds) if I'd thought to select all the step cells at once (with Ctrl+click) before applying the borders. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Ronica wrote: I'm trying to create a chart that looks like a flight of stairs going from the lower left of the page to the upper right of the page. I've looked in the templates online, but I don't see any. Can someone help me? Assuming you're using the Chart object (Insert Object Microsoft Graph Chart): - Click just inside the shaded box, right-click, and select Chart Type. In the dialog, choose an XY(Scatter) type, and choose the subtype of "Scatter with points connected by lines without markers" (the bottom-right one). Click OK. - (Optional) Right-click one of the grid lines in the chart, select Format Gridlines, and change its color, weight, style, etc. - In the data sheet, start by typing each X value twice; for example, X value 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 - Below each X value, type a Y value. Again, each value is entered twice, but offset like this: X value 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 XY 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 This pattern forms the stair step: two Y values with the same X value, two X values with the same Y value, repeat as needed. This kind of pattern can also be created in an Excel chart and imported or linked into a Word document. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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