They say dotted lines never come without the need to dot. Now, whatever that means, since they’re causing so much confusion, we’ll make our Excel lives easier and get rid of them. But with reason. You will learn ahead that dotted lines can be Page Breaks or Borders and we will go...
Note that the above steps would stop showing the dotted lines only for the workbook in which you have unchecked this option. For other workbooks, you will have to repeat the same process if you want to get rid of the dotted lines. In case you have set the print area in the worksheet,...
Line Charts: A line chart is most useful for showing trends over time, rather than static data points. The lines connect each data point so that you can see how the value(s) increased or decreased over a period of time. The seven line chart options are line, stacked line, 100% stacked...
Using Dotted Lines to Show Uncertainty Here’s the edited version. We used a dotted line to connect two points on the graph. Dotted lines are great for visualizing estimates or uncertainty. So how did I do this? How to Add Placeholder Data to Your Table ...
STATUS: BY DESIGN This behavior is by design. Solid lines are printed instead of dotted borders due to inconsistencies in quality when printing at higher resolutions. More Resources Ask the experts Connect with experts, discuss the latest Excel news, updates, and best practices, and...
From theChartsgroup, selectScatter. Select theScatter with Straight Lines and Markersoption. The following graph with an added vertical line will be added. We also changed theChart Titleto “Adding Vertical Line”. Read More:How to Add a Vertical Dotted Line in Excel Graph ...
STATUS: BY DESIGN This behavior is by design. Solid lines are printed instead of dotted borders due to inconsistencies in quality when printing at higher resolutions. More Resources Ask the experts Connect with experts, discuss the latest Excel news, updates, and best practices, and read our blo...
I tried your advice and selected the entire sheet as the print area, but I still had the dotted lines where Excel broke the sheet into printable pages.Again, I was unable to clear this via the standard method.What I finally did was COPY the entire sheet>...
A dotted rectangle indicates the borders of the part of A1 that's out of view. We found in early testing that some things just didn’t look or work as expected, so we realized this was not going to be a simple or straightforward change. As indicated by the word graphic above, almost...
(There’s also the option to used dashed, dotted, or double lines.)Decide where to apply borders. The options are, from left to right: All borders, Inner, Horizontal, Vertical, Outer, Left, Right, Top, or Bottom. If there are existing borders you don’t want to print, use this ...