In this guide, I'll walk you through the different ways to format your chart, with Excel's main chart-formatting actions written in bold so you can find them more easily.

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 ...

To change this, we right-clicked the x -axis, clicked "Format Axis," and changed "Bin Width" to 10.0. If you prefer, you could adjust the number of bins (rather than their scope).

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 ...

Excel usually does a good job second-guessing me when it chooses the scale for an axis on a chart. But sometimes, to better focus some data, I need to adjust that scale, and that’s when I run into ...

Want to know how to create a scatter plot in Excel? Here's a guide on how we created a simple chart based on performance numbers.

Excel provides over 16 dozen geometric shapes that you can size and manipulate to your specific needs, plus hundreds of special effects.

Right-click the X axis (the flavors), choose Format Axis from the resulting context menu, and then click the Font tab. Choose 8 in the Size control and click OK. Right-click any of the values on ...