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Elevate your Excel charting skills with this tutorial focused on creating line series charts that effectively ignore blank cells.

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Here's what you'll learn:
▪️ Handling Blank Cells in Line Charts: Understand the challenge of blank cells in line charts and how they can distort your data presentation.
▪️ Manual Approach for Skipping Blanks: Discover a step-by-step manual method to prevent blank cells from being plotted on both the Y-axis and X-axis in line charts.
▪️ Creating an Official Excel Table: Learn how to convert your data set into an official Excel table and use filtering to hide blank cells.
▪️ Switching Axis to Text Axis: Find out how changing your X-axis to a text axis can help in ignoring blank cells, and the impact it has on your chart.
▪️ Practical Example and Testing: See a practical example of this method and how to adjust chart properties to maintain the chart's shape when filtering data.
▪️ Limitations of the Manual Approach: Understand the limitations of this manual approach, especially when dealing with continuous data updates.
▪️ This tutorial is perfect for those who regularly work with Excel charts and are looking to provide clearer visuals without the interference of blank data points.

For Part 2: Dynamic approach using formulas: https://youtu.be/T8P8xMBkH4I

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In this video I show you how to create gaps on the horizontal axis of a line chart when the data values are empty - i.e. contain blank cells. Excel normally fills the empty dates on the x-axis and connects the line (where the gap should be).

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