How Excel Charts Work A chart has an x-axis range and a y-axis range to show the correlation between two different data sets. The x-axis is the horizontal category line.

How do you flip a chart left to right in Excel? Right-click any of the axis on the chart and select Format axis on the menu. A Format Axis pane will open. Under the Axis Options, in the Axis ...

Graphs in Microsoft Excel typically chart time on the horizontal axis. Time is the independent variable in most relationships and dependent variables appear on the vertical axis. Some charts, though, ...

Change an Excel chart’s minimum axis value for a cleaner look Your email has been sent If you have uneven distribution of data in your Excel chart, here is a better way to change the automatic axis ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2007. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Excel usually does a ...

Sometimes when I’m working with an Excel worksheet and I want a cell to look a certain way, I run into what appears to be a limitation in the program. It might be trying to enter product numbers with ...

When you use Excel's Chart Wizard to create a chart, by default the chart takes on the number formats used in the worksheet that includes the charted data. Mary Ann Richardson shows you a way to ...

Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Conditional formatting makes a cell look a certain way ...