These show that the owner has full permissions. The next three characters are the user permissions for this directory. This line refers to a directory called “archive.” The owner of the directory is “dave,” and the name of the group that the directory belongs to is also called “dave.” In our screenshot, the first line starts with a d. The read, write, and execute indicators are all present. rwx means full permissions have been granted.- means no permissions have been granted at all.If the file is a script or a program, it can be run (executed). The file can be edited, modified, and deleted. The file can be opened, and its content viewed. If the character is an r, w, or an x, that permission has been granted. If the character is a dash, it means that permission is not granted. The characters are indicators for the presence or absence of one of the permissions. They are either a dash ( -) or a letter. There are three characters in each set of permissions. The last three characters show the permissions for anyone not in the first two categories ( other permissions).The middle three characters show the permissions for members of the file’s group ( group permissions).
The first three characters show the permissions for the user who owns the file ( user permissions).The next nine characters represent the settings for the three sets of permissions. In this example, doing so will add “featured on ” to our line.On each line, the first character identifies the type of entry that is being listed. In addition, you can change the scale of the axis to expand or contract the vertical line as you wish.Īnd last but not least, you can access the “Format Data Series” dialog box for the single vertical line data point (as was discussed above) and add the y-axis column label to your line by selecting the “Data Labels” tab and checking “Series name” under the Data Labels section. Choose the “Patterns” tab and you can choose “None” for all the line and tick mark labels to hide the axis on the chart. In addition, you can hide the secondary axis by clicking on it once to select it, then right clicking the secondary axis and select “Format Axis…”. So to improve the appearance of your chart, you can format the vertical bar by clicking on it once to select it, then right clicking on the bar and selecting “Format Error Bars…” and click the “Patterns” tab to change the look of the error bar as you wish. You’re basically done at this point and although this technique for adding a vertical line is useful, it’s not easy on the eyes. It doesn’t matter what you name your y-axis data ( you will see why “featured on ” is being used in a moment) or what value you use as long as it is in the neighborhood of the data that has been plotted. For this example, the date when was featured on is being used as the vertical line data. Be sure to follow the same data structure that you used for your original data. In a separate area on your worksheet, add the info for the vertical line data. Step 2: Add the vertical line data to your chart… Be sure to follow all the Chart Wizard steps and choose the “as object in” option to place the chart in your worksheet ( we can change the location of the chart later).
If you want to follow the example in this tutorial, you can download the Excel spreadsheet * HERE*. Using the Chart Wizard, create an XY (Scatter) chart with time on the x-axis and your numeric data on the y-axis. Step 1: Create an XY (Scatter) chart…įor this example, feed subscribers for the month of May is being used. Thankfully, there’s a “hack” that can eliminate the hassle of drawing vertical lines while allowing you to instantly change their position with a few mouse clicks.
The issue is that these lines aren’t bound to the x-axis, so any change to the chart is usually accompanied by manual line repositioning. Normally, one turns to the line tool in Excel to manually draw vertical lines on a chart.