[Solved] Y-Error Bars Incorrect

[The_Cat]

Hi All,

Spent ages today making a large pile of graphs. After making them I realised that the y-error bars do not correspond to the errors I specified the range for. Firstly is there any way to fix this? Or has anyone even had this problem? -couldn't find anything.

After playing about for a bit I made a little dummy graph and after playing with the values I noticed that in that particular graph OO had doubled the error values (as in each line was double the value on the spreadsheet), though this was not the case in my other graphs. The error bars are not a single value and they do change but I can't work out why they are different from the value written on the spreadsheet or why they are different from graphs I make in excel (I dont want to waste another day re-doing all of my graphs). Any ideas?

[Hagar Delest]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Can you upload a sample file (see: How to attach a document here)?

[The_Cat]

Thank you for your reply and thanks

Okay, not the most ideal example, sorry about the small numbers but its just some of the data I am using, but note the difference in the two graphs, the error bars are different :/ They also don't seem to correspond to the data above

[ken johnson]

The same range has been used for all four series.
Each series needs its own single row of error values.

Examplex.ods

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Ken Johnson

[The_Cat]

Ah, I see my error (Rats! There I was thinking OO was so awesome that I didn't have to select everything individually). Thanks atleast now all my other graphs are not to ruin!

Now I can't seem to get open office to 'double the error values' as it did before, I suppose I will put it down to stupidity while panicing about a days work