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Default Horizontal Axis Options Changing

Thanks. I did check that and Excel shows the chart type as a Line chart.


"Andy Pope" wrote in message
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Hi,

From your description it would suggest that the chart with the
Min/Max/Major/Minor is in fact an xy-scatter chart rather than a Line
chart.
Select the chart and use Chart Tools Design Type Change chart type.
This should show you the current chart type.

Cheers
Andy
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"JakBob" wrote in message
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Excel 2007

I have noticed that the horizontal Axis options can change in an Excel
2007
chart, which is driving me crazy. On some charts when I open the
horizontal
axis options, under Axis options, they start out with "Interval between
tick
marks", "Interval between labels" and so on, which is what I expect to
see.
On another chart, with the exact same layout and data (just the numbers
are
different for the data), when I right click the horizontal axis and
choose
Format Axis, the Axis Options start out with Minimum, Maximum, Major
Unit,
Minor Unit and so on. The options, Interval between tick marks, Interval
between labels and so on are not there. These are all simple line charts
with a date column and then 2 columns of data (numbers).

So how do I get the "normal" horizontal options back? Why is Excel
changing
the Axis options?