Thursday, November 19, 2009

X Axis and Numbers

Common X Axis Problem

If your first column contains numbers, such as years, Excel will not recognize that you want this series to be on the X axis. Excel will just treat it as another series. In the example below, zip code has been treated as a series rather than displaying on the x axis as the user wanted.



  • On the Design tab, click on Select Data
  • Select Zipcode in the dialog box
  • Click Remove
  • Click on the Edit button in the Horizontal (Category) Axis labels dialog box
    and select the zipcode data (A8:A11) as the Axis label range
  • Make sure not to include the heading zipcode
  • Click OK
  • Click OK

Now, you have a nice chart with Zipcode labels on the X axis!

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