Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet platform used to organize and interpret data. With Excel, you make calculations and analyze statistical data based on columns and rows of information. Excel ...

For example, in a chart that displays population fluctuations by year, population numbers go on the x-axis and years go on the y-axis.

If you have uneven distribution of data in your Excel chart, here is a better way to change the automatic axis settings.

When you use Excel's Chart Wizard to create a chart, by default the chart takes on the number formats used in the worksheet that includes the charted data. Mary Ann Richardson shows you a way to ...