Sorry for being tardy with a reply, busy busy
Thanks for the confirmation J, I was fairly sure it wouldnt work that way but hoped there might be a workroud. as it is, I am just setting major axis scale to 8 (working hours/day) and that gives a fair count. It is for reporting, so I can always go back to overwriting it after it is PDF'ed to show days. Not ideal but I only need to do it every couple of weeks, so it could be worse!
And yes, it does need to be VR, its for production of company standard reporting (although I am pushing hard for a change to that). Reporting was devised by people who thought they knew what they wanted, used something they didnt know to get it, and ended up changing what they had to be closer to what they wanted. And still missed