The X-axis, which is the horizontal axis, on most Excel charts does not use numeric intervals like the vertical Y-axis does. The X-axis contains either strings of text or a date under each set of ...

Naming Basics Best practice recommendations are to create a chart placing independent variables on the horizontal, x-axis and dependent variables on the vertical, y-axis.

This article explains how to add a secondary axis to a chart in Excel so you can view unlike categories on the same graph. These instructions work in Excel in Microsoft 365, Excel 2021, Excel 2019 ...

You can wrap text in Excel in several ways to ensure that all the text in a cell is visible at once. You may also want to edit the cell height.

If you have uneven distribution of data in your Excel chart, here is a better way to change the automatic axis settings.

Excel 2016's many new features include six new chart types. Here we cover Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall, which cover statistical, trend, and other relationships.