Create a scatter plot with various series automatically

Hi all

I am trying to create a scatter plot in excel and I am getting my rear kicked for such a simple procedure. My problem is I have a lot of data that needs to be compiled in a scatter plot and doing it manually will not be an option. My data kind of looks like this

Legend Title	X Value		Y Value
Category 1	x1		y1
	x2		y2
	x3		y3
	x4		y4
	x5		y5
Category 2	x2,1		y2,1
	x2,2		y2,2
	x2,3		y2,3
	x2,4		y2,4
	x2,5		y2,5
Category 3	x3,1		y3,1
	x3,2		y3,2
	x3,3		y3,3
	x3,4		y3,4
	x3,5		y3,5
Category 4	x4,1		y4,1
	x4,2		y4,2
	x4,3		y4,3
	x4,4		y4,4
	x4,5		y4,5

This is just an example. I have files with close to 40 categories and have close to 200-300 files. So doing a manual insertion is not an option. I am trying to make a scatter plot which will make a plot with category 1 as the series title and plot x and y and then superimpose the same graph with a different color as category 2 and x and y and so on. Is the a way to automate the process?

Thanks
Abhishek Aggarwal

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