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Jerry W. Lewis Jerry W. Lewis is offline
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Default Line chart with negative numbers - X-axis problem

Double click on the y-axis and on the scale tab, specify the y value where
you want the x-axis to cross.

Are you sure that you want a "Line" chart and not an "XY (Scatter)" chart?
The only difference between them is that the x-axis on a "Line" chart is
presumed to be categories instead of an arithmetic scale. If you think your
x values are numbers and they are not equally spaced, then a "Line" chart
will distort your graph by making them appear to be equally spaced. Even if
they are equally spaced, if you try to fit a trendline, the fitted parameters
from a "Line" chart will be calculated assuming that your x values were
1,2,3,... regardless of what you think the x values are.

Jerry

"Judi" wrote:

There's probably a really easy solution to this, but I've made a chart out of
a spreadsheet that's got negative numbers in it. My X-axis labels are in the
middle of the chart now, and I'd like them to be along the bottom.

Can you help?

~Judi