I want to fix my Y-axis to 10, but have a data point with y value of 25 and would like it to be shown in my chart as pushed up against the upper limit of the y-axis.
Is this possible without macros etc? Currently that data point just dissapears from view.
Thanks.
Click on the Y-axis with right mouse button. Choose format and there you can set the maximum. If you have higher value than the maximum, it doesn't matter.
Hope it helps.
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How do I get the chart pictured below to use labels 1000, 6000, 11000, and so on on the X-axis, rather than 1001, 6001, 11001 and so on? This is a general question not specific to this chart. I've experienced this problem with any single chart I created over the last 20 years.
It didn't bother me a lot before, but now that I am working on producing high quality visualizations, it has become an eyesore big enough to bother me. I hope there is a simple workaround.
Excel chart:
Simply select the respective axis -> right-click -> Format Axis...
Then adjust the bounds as required to e.g., Minimum: 1,000 and Maximum: 6,000, and the Major units to 5,000 (step-size). You could also change the Minor units but you do not use tick marks anyways. In effect, adjusting these parameters you can adjust the format of the axis to exactly fit you needs.
EDIT: Further explanation based on the comment
You need to explicitly select the x-axis by clicking on it so that it is highlighted as shown below (not the yellow part of course):
If this does not work, you can also select the x-axis in the following way; assuming you are able to adjust the y-axis as mentioned in your comment. Select the y-axis -> right click -> Format Axis....
Inside Format Axis you need to select Axis Options and select Horizontal (Value) Axis:
I have a bar chart that shows the count values of three events occur, which means the value will always be an integer. I try to adjust the decimal places under format axis of the bar chart but it appeared something like this. May I know any way to solve this problem so that the label of y-axis can be 0,1,2,3,... instead of 0,1,1,2,2,3? By the way, this is a pivot chart. Thank you.
Under axis options, change major unit to 1:
you simply need to change the units of your axis:
Left-click on axis: format axis
Under Axis Options -> Units -> Major: Change from "0.5" to "1".
If that doesn't help, maybe you can share your .xls sheet ?
In MS Excel 2010, I have the following data. I created a simple line chart but it uses the data axis automatically (that's what I want). The problem is that the first date (11/25/2015) is right below 0% (of the y-axis) and I don't want that to happen. I want to move the middle area of the chart along with the x-axis a bit to the right so that it doesn't look shabby. How to go about doing this?
I added a new row and then deleted it but the chart automatically adjusts by itself. I have also tried simply resizing the chart. I've also tried creating new rows but I don't know if that's the right way.
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select your X axis and right click on it and then select Format Axis from the pop up menu.
in the options screen that comes up on the right you can set your MAX and MIN values so your chart does not resize on you at all or you can limit how much it can resize in one direction. You can also set where the AXIS crosses. now this will apply to where the Y axis crosses.
This information can be set for the Y axis as well by selecting it and repeating this process. When you do it for the Y axis, you are controlling where the X axis will cross.
In my graph, the x axis are text values. When I make the graph, I cannot stretch it to the whole width. Instead, it takes only less than half of the width.
I usually do this by clicking on "Format Axis", but it doesn't offer that in this case.
Here is the screenshot:
I'm using Excel for Mac.
When you made the chart, did you select a bunch of empty rows below the range that actually contains data? Looks like twice as much empty data as data with values.
If you select the plot area or chart area, you can see the source data of the chart highlighted in the sheet. You can resize the highlighted range with the mouse to modify the amount of data in the chart.
Did they made different types for windows and mac? I'm using windows and scaling is never a problem here.
I can't give you any answer but I can give you a suggestion. Can you check the width of the numbers below the 'Number of public SLA templates' label? Its occupying all the width of your window.
I'm using Excel 2007 to create a log-scale chart of numbers (specifically the Zimbabwean dollar exchange rate) over time. I'm using an x-y scatterplot and noticing one odd quirk.
The range of y values (numbers) spans a factor of about 10^30. On every chart I make using this data, half the gridlines are missing. Specifically, only the gridlines corresponding to the largest values show up. In fact, regardless of the total range only the top factor of 10^13 or so have gridlines. This is not dependent on the log base.
Am I doing something wrong? Is this a known bug? I can't find any references to this issue on google or microsoft's bug reports.
Silly work around as well, but if you are going to be presenting your graph in Powerpoint, you can make the background color of the graph "no fill" and then when you paste it into Powerpoint (I paste it as a PDF). You can draw grid lines and match them up with the ticks on the y-axis. Arrange your graph "bring to front" when you are finished drawing so that the lines won't appear in front of your data. You can group it all to make sure the lines don't shift while making your presentation and so that they re-size properly if you re-size your graph.
I'm having the same problem, it's definitely a bug.
Try a sequence 1, 10, 100, 1e+12, 1e+30 vs 0..4 and plot x,y scatter, and clearly the scale grid is messed-up even in linear, and in log is the behaviour you described.
My workaround was to make a transformation of the values and depict them scaled down (by a Million factor). That way the data the graph is handling is never above 10e9 (the value I started to hit issues).
So, my suggestion is: graph a Log version of the data (and clearly make a legend for it)
I was able to replicate your problem and come up with a pseudo-workaround.
The formatting goes a bit funny, but all the lines show up if you right-click on the axis, select Format Axis. Under the Axis Options, there is a Horizontal Axis Crosses setting. Changing it from Automatic to Maximum Axis Value causes all the gridlines to appear.
Ran into same thing: Will not show log grid lines for y-axis ranging below 1e-7. Have need for dynamic range of 1e5 down to 1e-15. Tagging auto or max will show grid, but puts axis labels in non-useful place for display.
My workaround: used Open Office to get what I needed. Could not find useful solution in Excel 2010.