Hi,

Sounds like your x axis is being treated as Dates rather than categories.
Right click chart and pick chart options. On the Axes tab check Xaxis
Category type.

Cheers
Andy

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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
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"Diana" wrote in message
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I created a column chart with 7 data series, and the data columns are very
thin, so you can't tell one series from another. I tried using overlap
and
gap to increase the width of the columns, but that is not working. Any
help
would be greatly appreciated.