Time series chart doesn't work

Question

I am trying to create a simple time series chart, plotting five time series over a 5 year period. I have a table with the time series in rows, but when I select the chart to graph it, the data appears as if the time series is in the columns! Then, when I re-created the chart with the data in the columns and selected it, it created the same chart! I tried "transposing" the columns and rows as the "Help" command suggested, by going into the "Data Series" box, but it won't accept any input in the box. Help.

Answer 1

Hello
(1) Before charting time or duration values, I convert them as decimal numbers representing a decimal number of days (you may choose a decimal number of hours or a decimal number of minutes).
Here is what I get.
It appears that the chart tool defaults to the orientation where there is the greater number of values.
This is the case for Graphique 1 and for Graphique 2
Clicking on the orientation button I may change the behavior accordingly as I did for Graphique 1 rotate and Graphique 2 rotate.
I don't see any oddity here.
Just for info, to build the transposed tables, I didn't used the TRANSPOSE() function but formulas like:
B9 =OFFSET($D$2,COLUMN()-COLUMN($B$9),ROW()-ROW($B$9))
fill down, fill right
G9 =OFFSET($I$2,COLUMN()-COLUMN($G$9),ROW()-ROW($G$9))
fill down, fill right
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 28 janvier 2009 14:29:02)