How Excel Charts Work A chart has an x-axis range and a y-axis range to show the correlation between two different data sets. The x-axis is the horizontal category line.

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.

How to Add a Secondary Axis to an Excel Chart Excel charts offer a variety of ways to visualize data. When using an X-and-Y-axis layout, you can display a data series that enables you to compare ...

Learn how to create a Combination Chart in Microsoft Excel. We also show you how to to combine bar and line graph & create Custom Combo Chart.

Making a floating bar chart in Microsoft Excel is a great way to visually represent distribution between entities. Susan Harkins will show you how.