Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Partially missing gridlines on log-scale charts in Excel 2007

I'm using Excel 2007 to create a log-scale chart of numbers (specifically the Zimbabwean dollar exchange rate) over time. I'm using an x-y scatterplot and noticing one odd quirk.



The range of y values (numbers) spans a factor of about 10^30. On every chart I make using this data, half the gridlines are missing. Specifically, only the gridlines corresponding to the largest values show up. In fact, regardless of the total range only the top factor of 10^13 or so have gridlines. This is not dependent on the log base.



Am I doing something wrong? Is this a known bug? I can't find any references to this issue on google or microsoft's bug reports.





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