On Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 5:45:26 PM UTC+1, Jon Peltier wrote:

A line or XY chart skips a point when it encounters #N/A (note the # prefix, which makes it an official Excel error). No point, no data label. N/A is treated as text, so it is plotted as a point at zero, and it will have a legend.

In column or bar charts, #N/A is treated the same as text, so the best bet
is to leave the cell blank. However, you can use a little number format trick. Show the labels, then give the labels a custom number format of

0%;;;

There are four settings, separated by semicolons. The first, for positive numbers, uses 0%. The other three, for negatives, zero, and text, use no format, so those values are not displayed. Note: if you use the official Excel error #N/A, this error will appear regardless of number format.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services, Inc.
http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/
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"exalan" <exalan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7177877D-C4F8-48D3-B6BB-69DE46A256E0@microsoft.com...

Hello,

I've a simple column chart plotting % of daily on time delivery. There are days that I don't have any delivery so I insert "N/A" to the relevant cells.
However, when I inserted data labels to the chart, those values with "N/A" were shown as 0%.

Without hiding the rows with "N/A", what other ways can I do to have data labels not showing "N/A" as 0%?

Many thanks in advance...

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exalan

Hello Jon,

This little trick is not working for me.
I've creaed many charts, on which on each this trick is working except for one.

I changed the number format but still #NA is showing up on the chart.

Thanks for your help (if possible)

Greetings,

Paul

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