David:The purpose of fancy graphics is to cover up the paucity of information contained therein. For that reason alone, Excel's cornucopia of choices fits the bill very nicely.I have certainly never said nor implied that Excel cannot produce reasonably
good graphics. My concern is that it makes it so easy to produce poor
graphics. The defaults are absurd and should never be used. It seems to me that
defaults should produce at least something useful. The default graphs are certainly not good
business graphs if the intent is to produce good visual display of quantitative information!
Isn't that what graphs are for?
(Slap your own face, Jay, for being such a cynic.)
Cheers,
Jay
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