next up previous contents index
Next: 13.12 Making a Box Up: 13.11 Making a Hi Previous: 13.11 Making a Hi

13.11.1 Drawing the Graph

To draw the Hi Lo graph:

  1. Start a new spreadsheet, saving the polar spreadsheet as polars.

  2. Enter the following data into the new NExS spreadsheet:

    A B C D E F G
    1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
    2 28.1 28.6 30.7 31.5 31.8 33.0 32.2
    3 27.5 28.6 29.3 30.1 31.2 32.2 30.7
    4 25.3 27.5 27.8 29.2 29.2 31.3 30.5

  3. Select the range A1..G4. The columns will now be highlighted.

  4. Select New Graph from the Graph menu and display its submenu.

  5. Select Hi Lo Graph from the New Graph submenu. NExS displays a window containing the Hi Lo graph as shown in Figure 13.20.

Unlike a line graph, this graph contains a series of isolated vertical lines each of which has a small horizontal tick. The horizontal ticks are placed according to the values in row 3 of the spreadsheet. The lower and upper bounds of each vertical line are determined by the data in rows 2 and 4, respectively. The horizontal location of each mark is set by the values in row 1. You could have created this Hi Lo graph by arranging the data into columns.

   figure5312
Figure 13.20: Hi Lo Graph

Just as with line and bar charts, Hi Lo graphs can show multiple sets of data.


next up previous contents index
Next: 13.12 Making a Box Up: 13.11 Making a Hi Previous: 13.11 Making a Hi

NExS User's Guide, Version 1.4.5
Grey Trout Software
11 April 1999