Once you do that, you’ll see that red square move to the top-left corner of your chart.ĥ.
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Right-click in your chart and choose Select Data. You now need to add the x-values to the scatterplot series (remember, we named it “100%”). (Notice how the point moves over when you do so.)Ĥ. Show the Secondary Horizontal axis by going to the Axes menu under the Chart Layout button in the ribbon. Select the point, right-click to Format Data Series and plot the series on the Secondary Axis.ģ. Select that column and change it to a scatterplot.Ģ. When you click OK, you’ll see that you have a new column. It’s important you refer to cell D3 in the name field. Here’s my data:Ĭreate your column chart and then add the first scatterplot series by selecting data and adding this series. We will attach them to the secondary x- and y-axes and add a left-side data label. For this example, I’ll use four increments, and thus four separate scatterplots. However many gridlines you are going to use (if you use them!) will directly correspond to how many separate scatterplots you are going to need. Create your basic column chart and you’ll get your standard y-axis labels.
You may think there are a lot of steps to this task, but they are all pretty minor and once you’re done you’ll be ready to combine charts and use scatterplots for a lot of different tasks. All we’re going to do is combine the column chart with four separate scatterplot series and use the names of those scatterplot series to label the y-axis. But don’t give up hope! There is a way! And it’s not too difficult, though it’s a little time consuming. You can’t select single axis labels in Excel, so you’ve got to go about it a different way. In other words, instead of adding percentage signs to every y-axis label or putting the phrase “Percentages” in the title or sub-title, she wanted a single percentage sign. Keep in mind that that you don't have reverse the axis in a case like this.įor example, to get the same result with a bar chart I could simply sort the source data, smallest to largest.I was at a conference earlier this fall and someone asked me whether it’s possible to create an Excel chart where only the first (top) y-axis label has a percentage sign format while the others were just number labels. To reset the axis to it's default, visit axis options again and set the axis crossing to automatic, and untick the reverse order checkbox. Now, if I switch back to a column chart, the reversed axis comes along too. To fix this problem, you'll want to set the horizontal axis to cross at the maximum value.
So when I reverse the order, the axis moves along with Cuba. This is confusing, but the gist is that the horizontal axis is set to cross at the minimum or first value by default, which is Cuba in this case. Notice it also moves the horizontal axis to the right. When I check the box, Excel reverses the plot order. There, near the bottom, you'll see a checkbox called "values in reverse order". To make this change, right-click and open up axis options in the Format Task pane. Luckily, Excel includes controls for quickly switching the order of axis values. It's the layout of the bar chart that makes it look like the data is reversed, since the values are plotted from the bottom to the top. The first value is plotted next to the origin, and subsequent values move away from the origin. Now, what happens if I change this chart to a bar chart?Īt first you might think that Excel changed the sort order of the axis labels.īut, if you look closely, the order is the same. The main thing to understand here is that the category labels start next to the origin, and each new value is plotted further away from the origin.
In this case, the first column is Cuba, and the last is Barbados, so the columns match the order of the source data moving moving top to bottom.Ī line chart and area chart don't make sense for this data, but if I temporarily try them out, you can see the plot order stays the same. When Excel plots data in a column chart, the labels run from left to right to left. Let me insert a standard column chart and let's look at how Excel plots the data. Here we have data for the top 10 islands in the Caribbean by population.
HORIZONTAL AXIS LABELS EXCEL 2016 HOW TO
In this video, we'll look at how to reverse the order of a chart axis.
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