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Prevent zero values from appearing in "Numbers charts"

I have a chart that is displaying zero values because some cells it is charting formula's result is a zero due to the fact that as yet no data for that month has been entered.


I do not want the chart line to crash to the x axis.


Can anyone help?

Posted on May 31, 2019 6:37 AM

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Posted on Jun 1, 2019 2:14 AM

Let's say the series that has formulas that sometimes produce 0 are in column C starting at row 2.


Set up a new Column D and in D2 put the formula =IF(C2=0,"",C2) and fill it down. This will show the same values as in C except that the 0s will be replaced by the null string, which won't plot.


Then base the chart on Column D rather than column C.


SG

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Jun 1, 2019 2:14 AM in response to Caburn

Let's say the series that has formulas that sometimes produce 0 are in column C starting at row 2.


Set up a new Column D and in D2 put the formula =IF(C2=0,"",C2) and fill it down. This will show the same values as in C except that the 0s will be replaced by the null string, which won't plot.


Then base the chart on Column D rather than column C.


SG

Jun 10, 2019 2:20 AM in response to SGIII

Thank you so much it worked!!! The table I am plotting from is taking data from another table. Therefore instead of creating another column in the table I’m charting from, I just substituted the advice re creating another column D used the cell in the formula from the table I was using to calculate my data from.

Prevent zero values from appearing in "Numbers charts"

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