Read through this example and use what you need from it.

http://www.peltiertech.com/Excel/Cha...egoryAxis.html


"cy" wrote in message
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i have a set of character values that i want to assign to the y-axis in an
Excel chart; how do i do it? i only can assign character values to
x-axis,
but not y-axis. can excel chart display character values for the y-axis?