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Lt Moose
Aug 8, 2007
moose
How can I make the columns of my bar graph wider? I already have the gap width set to 0%, but there still is tons of space between each value.
Here is what it currently looks like:

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Lt Moose
Aug 8, 2007
moose
After changing it to a text axis and Thel's suggestion it works! It looks much better now, thanks.

Lt Moose
Aug 8, 2007
moose
Edit: Rephrased question.

I have a lot of results from many different types of races in excel. I'm preparing to store these in a MySQL DB, so I need to prepare the data. I'm planning to have 2 columns: one for seconds, and one for milliseconds. So a race that is 30 min 6 sec long would have "1806" in col A and "00" in col B. Likewise, a race that is 16 min 40 sec and 24 ms would have "1000" in A and "24" in B.

My issue: The data is not entered in a uniform way. Take a look at Col H. Pretty much nothing has leading zeroes. So my first example is entered as 30:06, and my second example is 16:40.24. However, when I set the column format to [h]:mm:ss.00 (Col I), only some of the values are correct.

How can I process all of these non uniform inputs and get it split to minutes and seconds? Is this the best approach?

Thanks

Lt Moose fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Aug 22, 2012

Lt Moose
Aug 8, 2007
moose
Thanks, I'll try to play around with that more. I actually changed how I'm going to approach this, and I rephrased my original question, but this still could be helpful.

Lt Moose
Aug 8, 2007
moose

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:

Stuff like this is basically exactly what google refine was made to do.

THANK YOU!

This helped a ton. After some work I finally got it converted and cleaned up. Once I looked at it with that, I did a few different cases and corrected the values. It appears that the main problem was that everything was stored in days (e.g. a value of 1.0 = 24 hours), but it wasn't always correct. So sometimes a 30 minute race would be stored as 1.25 (incorrect, 30 hrs) or 0.0208 (correct).

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