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Originally Posted by Bossnass
The whole point of excel is that it is a dynanmic spreadsheet. Changing data is easy and directly changes the plot as needed. I've never used gnuplot, but I have done my share of matlab. matlab is great for matricies, but is barely satisfactory for graphs.
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Them's fightin' words.
Seriously, I can't stand excel for my "serious" publication grade plots - but it's great for quick data analysis and trend plots. Once I get it all pretty and ready to go, I load 'er into MatLab and make pretty ones.
If you write the front end script for MatLab, you can make it as dynamic as you want it to be. I guess the same is true with macros in excel, but I've never been able to get into the macro coding for it. If this is how you play excel, how much of a pain in the ass are the macros?
ps. I think metalgeek must have flown the coop.
pps. i can't believe i'm discussing flipping excel vs. matlab plot on TFP.