Plotting discontinuous graph in Excel – Mac 2008

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QUESTION :

have some data that has gaps in it and Im not able to plot it in excel. I know I want to uncheck the “Leave Gaps” item in the Tools / Chart / Options panel. Plenty of googling has showed that that’s the answer I want. But, I’m using Excel 2008 for OS X, not for Windows. And I can’t seem to find that option anywhere!

Here’s my data:

data

Here’s my graph from Excel:

excel graph

and here’s what I want. (Drew this in Photoshop)

desired graph

How can I do this in Excel 2008 for OS X? Thanks!

ANSWER :

Under Preferences> Chart

I am not sure 2008 and 2011 are the same but in 2011

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you must do more than uncheck “Leave Gaps”

Check Interpolated

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In Excel for Mac 2008: the dialog is in the same place as in 2011 (ie Excel>Preferences>Charts) but it is greyed out unless there is a chart in your worksheet, AND you have clicked on the chart before going to preferences AND it is a chart type which supports interpolation (basically X-Y scatter).

It was all a lot less demanding in PC versioon

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