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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 25 13:40:01 -0700 2006 ------- I have been trying the milestone 7 with the new chart wizard for over a week now and I will say the the Wizard is better than the present release version but it still is not good and overly complicated to use. I know that it isn't complete and that it is still Alpha but this is the time to fix any problems and issues. I am using it as I write this. Select data and Instert Chart. At present it is extremely slow with a large amount of data. It creates a chart on the current sheet and if you make changes in the chart wizard it will re-draw the chart. This is done before you even select create. As a preview it is nice though but could be hidden by the wizard so may be missed. I feel that the Data range dialog is useless with the data series dialog. This is just a duplication of setting the range. It is even worse if you don't have consectutive data ranges. For ease of use, many users wouldn't know what this actually means. For more advanced users, this could be useful. Now the Data series dialog is a problem itself. I have an x-y plot that has 10 series all based on the same X value. I want to change the X series range. I have to change each one individually with the associated re-draws that take time. I would prefer to setup an X series for all the various Y series and then if I need a different X series, I can add it and then select the range for each series. Like a tick box for X1 or X2 or X3 if they exist. Much easier to make changes. Now I am trying to do an X-Y Line chart using data from a real tasking. This tasking uses a "representitive spreadsheet" that is posted to issue 67518. I very rarely use data where X is in the first column of the data range. In most cases, the X column is added later so will be in a different and later column or sheet. Also, if you are changing the data series and hit enter as you would normally do when making a change, your Wizard is closed. Now you have to go back and edit the chart. It would be nice if there was an apply button added that was the default action. This could also speed up the changing of data as a re-draw only would have to take place once the "apply" is selected. Yea, I know about the uplink type icon. It just doesn't take precident if you hit enter. I had to restart numerous times because of this. Of course if you don't click the icon anc change to a new series, you lose your changes anyways even though the graph has been updated in the example. Adding a series is not intuitive and you cannot select broken/disconnected series for your data range. I tried to make a chart using the data that has the X-series in Column N, and Y1, Y2 and Y2 in Columns B, F and J. I selected the N column as my data range. Guess what, it doesn't show up in a Line chart. I need to use X-Y (scatter). Another issue about chart type defenition as discussed earlier in this issue. I now try to add the series by clicking on add. I get a generic name with no data which is expected. I select Name and enter in a value (this is working like a database). After clicking the "insert icon" I would expect the description "Data Series" to change the name from "New Series" to the value I input. It doesn't so my legend now says "New Series" instead of the name I entered" Repeat this a number of times and all series names in the legend are "New Series". I go to enter the X and Y values to be slowed down as there is a re-draw with each edit. About 30 minutes to enter in a three Y series graph with only one X value. Once the chart is created, I try to modify the data range and I get "Modify chart data range" dialog with an empty range box. No tabs or any other selections. Again this could be due to the status of the development. Now I don't expect the wizard to be the same as Excel or Quattro Pro (I actually hope it is better) but at present the QP one is much better than even the milestone 7 wizard. This isn't only my opinion of those that I have talked to. o see an example of the QP one, look at the Graphing Quattro Pro attachment. I should be able to select/edit my Series ranges from the spreadsheet using a mouse by either clicking on the sheet or clicking a button. Data shouldn't have to be X,Y,Y,Y etc order in the spreadsheet. If I have to edit the range, I shouldn't have to wait for a redraw each time I enter a digit. I would hate this to be working on a 200,000 cell series of data. 30,000 is bad enough. I would like to be able to edit all my X ranges or Y ranges at one time. It is much easier to see what changes need to be made to a each series instead of each one individually and having to make notes between series dialogs similiar to what Quattro Pro does. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
