If you really want a line plot, you can ignore the time column. The first column is used as labels and the second as the values.
Le vendredi 16 janvier 2015 à 15:08 -0700, rodgos a écrit : > Well, I do seem to be making some headay in this problem, albeit slowly.. > So far, Ive created a Gnumeric spreadsheet populated with 3 column and 8928 > lines of data. if I highlight all this, and click on 'Insert a chart', I get > a box, which at first makes no sense. I click on 'line', since I want a line > graph. . Select 'unmarked line plot', since I don't want markers. The the > first breakthrough. If I click on 'Use first series as shared absissa' and > the thing starts to make sense. The axes swing to place the data in column A > (date0, as the absissa, and columns B and C (time and temperature) as the > ordinate. Having, at last attained a logical structure I can go 'Forward' > and insert the chart into the spreadsheet. > Back to the spreadsheet I can now begin to organise the data, and the > appearance. I have a graph of the temperature against the date, which is > what I was after. With another of the time against the date, which is > irrelevant, and which I shall delete. The next bit is detail work to > regularise the scales and overall values, set the colours, fonts titles and > labels. Then go on to add rainfall as a bar chart > I must have done this all before, but, over time, it must have been > forgotten. If thiss is anything to go by, it was probably forgotten with > some rlief. It does seem to be a very complicated and un-intuitive way to go > about things. If it had been a manually drawn graph, the setting up would > have taken just a few minutes. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gnome-apps.13852.n7.nabble.com/A-plea-from-a-semi-newbie-tp66352p66365.html > Sent from the GnuMeric mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
