"John Rumm" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:

If you really want to know (it's boring) it's about a medical condition I
have and I want to record incidents as a graph so that I can see if they
are increasing or decreasing over time.

Sounds like a simple XY series will do what you want then... time on the X
axis, and events on the Y.

Two columns in Excel. First one contains the starting date, then either
manually enter additional dates under that when you want discrete
dates[1], or put in a formula of "=A1+1" (assuming A1 is the cell above),
highlight that cell and a bunch of them below and hit CTRL D to duplicate
them down if you want a continuous run of days. Stick the number of events
in the column beside as and when you have an event to record.

[1] Entering discrete dates will work for event that happen only every so
often. A continuous run of them will be better for something that happens
at least once a day, but is variable.

(example attached to an email flying your way)

I look forward to it!

Mary