Descriptive labels on an Excel chart enhance its readability and help you interpret the information the chart contains. Whether naming comes in the form of text, numbers or a combination, both the x ...

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 data ...

Once the basic chart is built, a handful of formatting tricks turn it into a timeline that stays in sync with your data.

This post is motivated by a comment on my blog post Line Charts Are Not Always the Best Way to Show Time Series. The comment by Meic Goodyear said, “A small point, but you could improve your Figure 2 ...

If you have uneven distribution of data in your Excel chart, here is a better way to change the automatic axis settings. If an Excel chart’s vertical axis is incremented by 20,000, and most of its ...