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	<title>Comments on: Box-plot and whiskers chart in Excel</title>
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		<title>By: Roger</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggpro.com/box-plot-and-whiskers-chart-in-excel/comment-page-1/#comment-39023</link>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I prefer to use bar charts with strategically placed error bars to accomplish this. I&#039;ve built an open source excel 2007+ ribbon add-in to automate box plotting with the bar chart method. It&#039;s free &amp; I&#039;d love help making it better. Give it a try at http://sourceforge.net/projects/excelstats/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I prefer to use bar charts with strategically placed error bars to accomplish this. I&#8217;ve built an open source excel 2007+ ribbon add-in to automate box plotting with the bar chart method. It&#8217;s free &amp; I&#8217;d love help making it better. Give it a try at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/excelstats/" rel="nofollow">http://sourceforge.net/projects/excelstats/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Bill Cossby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill Cossby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Extremely helpful and easy-to-follow. Thanks a lot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Extremely helpful and easy-to-follow. Thanks a lot.</p>
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		<title>By: Marie desJardins</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marie desJardins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, this was helpful!

I did find that I had to do a couple more things to get a traditional box-and-whisker plot.

1. Change the scale of the right Y-axis to be the same as the left Y-axis (since it&#039;s a stock plot, it assumes the volume is on a different scale than the rest of the data and determines the range of that axis separately from the other axis -- but of course I want the volume value to align with the &quot;open/close/low/high&quot; values).

2. Unfortunately, the default is that the volume is shown (on my version) in dark purple, *under* the box for the open/close/low/high.  It also wouldn&#039;t let me make the box fill transparent in order to show the upper line of the volume box.  So I couldn&#039;t see the &quot;median&quot; line that normally goes across the center of the box.  The only way I could find to do this was in three steps:

  (a) change the fill of the box to &quot;none&quot; so you can see the volume bar underneath
  (b) use the drawing tool to draw lines across each box at the right place
  (c) change the fill and border of the volume bar to &quot;none&quot; so that it won&#039;t show up at all.

Pretty clunky and tedious but it works as long as our data doesn&#039;t ever change. :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, this was helpful!</p>
<p>I did find that I had to do a couple more things to get a traditional box-and-whisker plot.</p>
<p>1. Change the scale of the right Y-axis to be the same as the left Y-axis (since it&#8217;s a stock plot, it assumes the volume is on a different scale than the rest of the data and determines the range of that axis separately from the other axis &#8212; but of course I want the volume value to align with the &#8220;open/close/low/high&#8221; values).</p>
<p>2. Unfortunately, the default is that the volume is shown (on my version) in dark purple, *under* the box for the open/close/low/high.  It also wouldn&#8217;t let me make the box fill transparent in order to show the upper line of the volume box.  So I couldn&#8217;t see the &#8220;median&#8221; line that normally goes across the center of the box.  The only way I could find to do this was in three steps:</p>
<p>  (a) change the fill of the box to &#8220;none&#8221; so you can see the volume bar underneath<br />
  (b) use the drawing tool to draw lines across each box at the right place<br />
  (c) change the fill and border of the volume bar to &#8220;none&#8221; so that it won&#8217;t show up at all.</p>
<p>Pretty clunky and tedious but it works as long as our data doesn&#8217;t ever change. <img src='http://www.bloggpro.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Danny</title>
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		<dc:creator>Danny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are amazing.  I spent hours trying to figure this out and I ended up creating a much less visually-appealing box-plot. This method is simple and looks great.  Thanks again</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are amazing.  I spent hours trying to figure this out and I ended up creating a much less visually-appealing box-plot. This method is simple and looks great.  Thanks again</p>
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		<title>By: Juts</title>
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		<dc:creator>Juts</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great, it works. Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great, it works. Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Carla</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nm. I think I found it! thnx.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nm. I think I found it! thnx.</p>
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		<title>By: Carla</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>can you do an example like this for Office Excel 2007? I tried it with this and it didn&#039;t work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>can you do an example like this for Office Excel 2007? I tried it with this and it didn&#8217;t work.</p>
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		<title>By: How can I make a box and wiskers graph on Microsoft Excel? &#124; Advanced Excel Training</title>
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		<dc:creator>How can I make a box and wiskers graph on Microsoft Excel? &#124; Advanced Excel Training</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Brandon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This helped, thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This helped, thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: S</title>
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		<dc:creator>S</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you&#039;re the 6th site i&#039;ve been too, and the first that has actually worked.  thanks so much!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you&#8217;re the 6th site i&#8217;ve been too, and the first that has actually worked.  thanks so much!</p>
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