I am attempting to create a chart with a dynamic data series. Each series in the chart comes from an absolute range, but only a certain amount of that range may have data, a
While this is an old post, I recently came across it when I was looking for a solution to the same issue. While the above solutions do prevent charts from plotting data (when source cells are #N/A or made to look blank), it doesn't resolve the issue of the chart data labels themselves still showing a zero label.
I had searched and searched and almost given up, when I came across the solution posted online @ https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/2031-excel-hide-zero-data-labels.html
It worked liked a charm. Attached is an image showing an example of how the data (labels) displayed before, Chart#1, and how it displays using this tip chart#2.
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