suppress zero values in line charts?

  • Thread starter Cruickshank Brothers
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Cruickshank Brothers

How can I suppress the plotting of zero values in line charts? The source
cells have a formula that evaluates as zero for future dates in the date
range.
 
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Nick Hodge

Rather than getting the formula to evaluate to zero, get it to evaluate to
the N/A# error

=IF(Date<Today,NA(),Value)

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Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
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Kevin Gallagher

How do I suppress zero values in a pie chart. i have tried returning
na# instead of zero and I tried using the format General; General,
neither are working for me with pie charts.... the na# appears, and
when I use General; General a dash "-" appears.

By way of explanation - I have a list of customers with a contribution%
against each - i wish to show the postive % customers on one pie chart,
and the negative % csutomers on a second pie chart. i have therefore
created two new % values and used an IF statement to supress postives
on one and negatives on the other. From that I make two graphs...
 
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Jon Peltier

Kevin -

The NA() trick to get #N/A in a cell doesn't help with pie charts. You almost got it
with the number formats, but you only specified positive and negative number
formats. You need to add two semicolons:

General;General;;

The lack of anything between the last two semicolons tells Excel not to show zeros.

- Jon
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