How to Add a Second Y-Axis on Excel & Make a Second Series at the End of the Chart. Microsoft Excel charts give you a large number of options for displaying the data in your spreadsheet.

Adding Data Sets One at a Time Launch Excel and load the spreadsheet containing the data you want to plot. Select the first set of X and Y axis data for your chart.

The Switch Row or Column feature allows you to swap data over the axis. Learn how to switch Rows and Columns in Microsoft Excel.

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

In this guide, I'll walk you through the different ways to format your chart, with Excel's main chart-formatting actions written in bold so you can find them more easily.

We discuss a comment on a previous post stating that the text of labels on the vertical axis of graphs must be horizontal by discussing the pros and cons of four possible positions for these labels.