How to Plot Two Things on the Same Y Axis in Excel. Properly formatted charts and graphs can help you grasp the patterns and trends hidden within the raw data of an Excel spreadsheet.

Naming Basics Best practice recommendations are to create a chart placing independent variables on the horizontal, x-axis and dependent variables on the vertical, y-axis.

Excel 2016's many new features include six new chart types. Here we cover Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall, which cover statistical, trend, and other relationships.

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