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How to make a box and whisker on a 2007 Excel 1. Open up Excel 2.

In column A put your title of your data set and then down the Column put your numbers 3. Skip two boxes down 4. Write Min 5. Go to the next box down and write Q1 6. Go to the next box down and write Med 7. Go to the next box down and write Q3 8. Go to the next box down and write Max 9. In Column B write 0rignal box up from the Min 10.Write the Min in the next box down 11.Write the Q1 in the next box down 12.Write the Med in the next box down 13.Write the Q3 in the next box down 14.Write the Max in the next box down 15.Write the words min, med, max, Q1, and Q3 in the same rows you wrote them in Column A, but now in column D. 16.In the row you wrote Original write Plot Values in Column E. 17.Write the Min in Column E under Plot Values. 18.Next write the answer to Q1-Min 19.Next box write the answer to Med-Q1 20.Next box write the answer to Q3-Med 21.Next box write the answer to Max-Q3 22.Highlight everything in Column D and E 23.Go to insert, Bar, stacked bar. 24.Delete the key 25.Click the bars, design, and switch row/column 26.Now you have 5 different colored boxes. 27.Click the first box, right click, format data series, fill, then press no fill. 28.Do the same with the next box.

29.Then go to the last box and do the same thing 30.You can press any of the boxes you made invisible or use your arrows to get to them, and go to the second box you made invisible. 31.Go t to layout, Error bars, and more error bar options. A new window should pop up. 32.It should say Horizontal Error Bars on the new window 33.Press Minus option. Then go the percentage and put 100 34.Enter 35.Go to the Second to last box. It should be the last box that you can see. 36.Go t to layout, Error bars, and more error bar options. 37.It says Horizontal Error Bars that is what it should be on. 38.Press the plus options. 39.Presses specify Value. 40.Type in the new Max that you made subtracting the old Max and Q3. 41.Enter 42.Youre done basically. 43.You can change the thickness of lines like I did or leave it be.

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