Need help with charts

[Tige_Vester@adobeforums.com]

I am trying to do a chart in Illustrator 8 but when I enter all the information I get a random bar first that goes up to 5000 even thought the highest # in my graph is under 2000. This makes the bars on my graph not very tall. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You

[Gail@adobeforums.com]

Perhaps 5000 is entered in the first cell, intended as a label?

Illustrator will read it as a number, and plot it, unless it has some other symbol with it, like " ".

eg, if 1999-2000 is entered as a label, it is okay because the hyphen means it cant be plotted. However, if 1999 is entered alone, Illustrator will plot it.