You need to set the data out like this

north 23
east 45
south 12
east 24

and make your chart using all this data; the names (North, etc) will be the
x-axis labels. You have no x-values so Excel provided 1,2,3
best wishes
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Bernard V Liengme
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"Curtis Croulet" wrote in message
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I have a column chart. Excel has automatically inserted consecutive
numbers underneath the columns. I want to replace these with text, unique
labels for each column. I thought this would be an ultra-simple,
ultra-intuitive task, but I can't find anywhere to do it in Excel, and I
can't find anything on the web. How do I replace Excel's default numbers
with text?
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Curtis Croulet
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