Hi,

You can use another bubble series and it's data labels to build an
arbitrary axis, rather than the usual xy-scatter series because as you
point out bubble charts don't do combinations.
Format the bubble to have no fill or border.
You will find more information on building a arbitrary axis here,
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/ArbitraryAxis.html

Use Rob's add-in to link data labels to cells.
http://www.appspro.com/Utilities/ChartLabeler.htm


Cheers
Andy

mrogge2895 wrote:
I am trying to build a bubble chart using data formatted as "General" as the
x axis label. When I create the chart, the labels are converted to numbers
in the chart. Can you tell me how to fix this issue so the x axis shows the
actual label of the data rather than a number?

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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
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