https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Overlaying-three-years-of-data-in-a-plot/m-p/73509#M21308 Hi,<BR /> I have three series of data for the same variable for different years which I would like to overlay in a plot so that they can be compared. Series1 is a forecast from Jan09 through Dec09. Series2 is actual data from Jan08 through Dec08 and Series3 is actual data from Jan07 through Dec07. I think that it would be easiest to plot the individual series against month so that they can be overlayed using the same horizontal axis; however, using the month() function will result in a numeric variable 1 through 12 for the extracted months - is there anyway of formatting this variable so that it shows Jan, Feb, Mar,...Dec in the plot x-axis? Or is there a better way to do this that I am missing? You input would be appreciated.<BR /> regards,<BR /> xander Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:19:43 GMT deleted_user 2009-02-10T18:19:43Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Overlaying-three-years-of-data-in-a-plot/m-p/73509#M21308 Hi,<BR /> I have three series of data for the same variable for different years which I would like to overlay in a plot so that they can be compared. Series1 is a forecast from Jan09 through Dec09. Series2 is actual data from Jan08 through Dec08 and Series3 is actual data from Jan07 through Dec07. I think that it would be easiest to plot the individual series against month so that they can be overlayed using the same horizontal axis; however, using the month() function will result in a numeric variable 1 through 12 for the extracted months - is there anyway of formatting this variable so that it shows Jan, Feb, Mar,...Dec in the plot x-axis? Or is there a better way to do this that I am missing? You input would be appreciated.<BR /> regards,<BR /> xander Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:19:43 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Overlaying-three-years-of-data-in-a-plot/m-p/73509#M21308 deleted_user 2009-02-10T18:19:43Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Overlaying-three-years-of-data-in-a-plot/m-p/73510#M21309 Just figured it out - I am going to use a custom format. Duh! Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:38:04 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Overlaying-three-years-of-data-in-a-plot/m-p/73510#M21309 deleted_user 2009-02-10T19:38:04Z