we may be having some discontinuities as to which is the X axis and which is
th Y axis, so try the other axis if it doesn't work
select the vertical axis double click on it and select scale
one of the lines should read "Catagory X axis crosses at " Set this cell
equal to the max value above.
"Ed" wrote:

My apologies. I guess I was using the wrong words to describe the problem.
It seems to be the Y-axis (Category axis) itself that's in the middle of the
chart (plot area). The tick mark labels are on top of the plot area,
aligned 90 degrees like I want. But the Y-axis with the major and minor
hash marks needs to sit on the top line of the plot area, and I can't get it
there.

Ed

"bj" wrote in message
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Select the axis double click on it select paterns and select low (or high)
for the location of the tick marks

"Ed" wrote:

I am trying to clean up some charts made my someone else. These are
line
charts with 9 data lines. Some of the lines wanted to go above the
maximum
Y-axis value. When I increased the value to Automatic, the lines are
now
within the chart. But the Y-axis tickmarks, which were at the top of
the
chart, are now in the middle of the chart. Actually, they are at the
value
they were at before; it's as though I've added chart on top of the tick
marks and the tick marks didn't move. The values are still above the
top
edge of the chart where they're supposed to be.

Can someone tell me what I need to change to get the tick marks at the
top
edge of the Y-axis? Thank you.

Ed