Chart Line color

[ApolloID]

Hi,

I have a 2d line chart, for all 12 months of the year. The problem is that the line drops from the curent month and may deceive somebody to think that the sales are dropping.

Is there any way to split the color of chart's line in two? ...from january till curent month, the color to be blue (like is now) and for the rest of the months (with 0 sales) the color to be white.

Or maybe the chart's line to be visible only till the curent month (including curent month)?

Can this be done?

Thank you!

 

[Asala42]

I assume your data range holds formulas. Even if you use if-statements to display blanks ("") or some other text, charts will try to plot this - treating these points as zeroes.

1 quick option, is to simply clear the formula cells from the extra months. Truly blank cells won't plot on a line chart. The drawback is you will have to recopy the formula down as new month's data come in.

Another method is to change the output for 0 sale months to na() (it should appear as #N/A in the output cell). These won't show in a line graph either, and there are methods to conceal these from the data table (conditional formatting or plotting a second near duplicate series)