Prevent Line Chart showing future months

[Andrew Watson]

Hello all,

First and foremost, I hate charts with a passion as they never seem to work for me.

I have line graph that I use to show my select local Vendors DIFOT rates. The data is taken from the top table (I also have a slicer in this so I can segregate each vendors rate easily) which in turn comes from another tab where the data is collated with all of our Vendors. The formula used to obtain the monthly DIFOT percentage for example is =IFERROR($K$3/($K$3+$L$3),"") where K equals the count of orders delivered on time and L equals the count of orders not delivered on time.

When I made the Chart (which also works off the slicer) all the Vendors drop down to a zero rate for the future months. I don't want the chart lines to extend beyond the current month to make the chart look better. I've tried searching pretty hard for a solution to this (in fact I know I have done this previously in another chart) but for the life of me I can't figure it out again.

Can anyone lend a hand so I don't burn anymore time on this.

 

[hagia_sofia]

Hello, try to use NA() function to your advantage, i.e. instead of leaving the future months blank make sure that the relevant cells are filled with #N/A as these should not be displayed in a graph.