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Need Help Scaling X-axis
Published on February 20, 2008 By iTZKooPA In Personal Computing

Sorry for not updating recently, I plan to get to drop some more exciting news within a week's time but till then I have an OpenOffice.org question.

I am using 2.3 and the latest 2.4 and I have not been able to get this working in either.

I am trying to make a chart showing the progression of Intel's stock over the course of 2007 and have not been able to get the X-axis to scale correctly.  I only want the month to be shown once, not for every data point which is what it is currently doing. 

In 2.3 I do not even see a scale option under the Format -> X-axis even though the help says it is there.  In 2.4 I see the option but it is greyed out so I cannot do anything. 

Here are some pictures to possibly better explain what I mean.

I am trying to get this(ods download):





to look something like:



I know how to accomplish this in Excel but I really don't want to have to go back to it for such a stupid thing.  Not to mention I am trying to have a clean break from it...Any ideas?


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