I'm trying to create a graph showing the duration of issue resolution. I believe a bubble chart in excel will show what I want but I can't manage to get it working correctly.

For each date I have a number of days (duration) and a number of issues (magnitude). Most dates have a duration of 1 with a large magnitude, and I want to avoid the outliers dominating the chart.

e.g.

• 1-Feb, 1, 15
• 1-Feb, 2, 10
• 1-Feb, 9, 1
• 2-Feb, 1, 11
• 2-Feb, 2, 14
• 2-Feb, 6, 2
• 2-Feb, 18, 1

etc.

I want the data in this example to give me 2 columns of bubbles.

When I try to get excel to create the chart I can't get the date to appear at on the x axis; I get a count (representing the row of the data) instead, and as each row is a separate column, the values don't line up for the date.

Can this be done in Excel 2007 without using VBA?