Ace Excel Chart Format Axis
Use the chart customization buttons that appear in the top right corner of your Excel graph when you click on it.
Excel chart format axis. Excel includes a variety of built-in formats that cover general numeric currency percentage exponential date time and custom numeric. Select the source data and then create a chart with clicking the Insert Scatter X Y and Bubble Chart or Scatter Scatter with Smooth lines on the Insert tab. Define a named range Sheet1X_Axis that refers to the formula shown below and use that defined name in your charts SERIES function.
Right click at the axis you want to format its labels as thousandsmillions select Format Axis in the context menu. Right-click the chart element you would like to customize and choose the corresponding item from the context menu. The chart uses text from your source data for axis labels.
Right-click in the axis and. The normal approach for time units of less than a day is to use a Scatter chart and set the Axis to display units of the relevant fraction of a day eg for hours 124 or 004166667 for minutes 13600. Click the x-axis or y-axis directly in the chart or click the Chart Elements button in the Current Selection group of the Format tab and then click Horizontal Category Axis for the x-axis or Vertical Value Axis for the y-axis on its drop-down list.
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Settings are grouped in 4 areas. In the Format Axis dialogpane click Number tab then in the Category list box select Custom and type 999999 MK into Format Code text box and click Add button to add it. On the Format tab in the Current Selection group click the arrow in the Chart Elements box and then click the axis that you want to select.
In the Format Axis pane in the right click the Axis Options button and change the number in the Major box in the Units section. In the chart right-click the category axis and then click Format Axis. If the axis labels are text Excel will assume the first data point will be 1 the second data point will be 2 and so on.