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On my excel worksheet, I have two columns. In column A1 I have the title
"YEAR" followed by various years like 1994, 1995, etc, and in B1 I have the
title "AVERAGE", followed by values for each year. I highlight A1:B12 and do
the chart wizzard and get a bar chart which spreads the value of both year
and averages. The X axis is just a consecutive number and the y axis spreads
the values of years and averages. What I want is a chart where the X axis to
displays the years from the A column and the Y axis to displays the numbers
from the B column. How do I do this? Thanks.
Tomc

Hi,

Try removing the title in A1.
The chart wizard will assume that the text is for the series name for 2
columns of data. Without the text it should assume category labels in
column A and data in B

Cheers
Andy

TomC wrote:
On my excel worksheet, I have two columns. In column A1 I have the title
"YEAR" followed by various years like 1994, 1995, etc, and in B1 I have the
title "AVERAGE", followed by values for each year. I highlight A1:B12 and do
the chart wizzard and get a bar chart which spreads the value of both year
and averages. The X axis is just a consecutive number and the y axis spreads
the values of years and averages. What I want is a chart where the X axis to
displays the years from the A column and the Y axis to displays the numbers
from the B column. How do I do this? Thanks.
Tomc

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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info

"TomC" wrote in message
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On my excel worksheet, I have two columns. In column A1 I have the title
"YEAR" followed by various years like 1994, 1995, etc, and in B1 I have
the
title "AVERAGE", followed by values for each year. I highlight A1:B12 and
do
the chart wizzard and get a bar chart which spreads the value of both year
and averages. The X axis is just a consecutive number and the y axis
spreads
the values of years and averages. What I want is a chart where the X axis
to
displays the years from the A column and the Y axis to displays the
numbers
from the B column. How do I do this? Thanks.

When using the chart wizard, choose "XY (scatter)" as the chart type.
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David Biddulph

Thank you Andy. That was the answer I needed.
Tomc


"Andy Pope" wrote:

Hi,

Try removing the title in A1.
The chart wizard will assume that the text is for the series name for 2
columns of data. Without the text it should assume category labels in
column A and data in B

Cheers
Andy

TomC wrote:
On my excel worksheet, I have two columns. In column A1 I have the title
"YEAR" followed by various years like 1994, 1995, etc, and in B1 I have the
title "AVERAGE", followed by values for each year. I highlight A1:B12 and do
the chart wizzard and get a bar chart which spreads the value of both year
and averages. The X axis is just a consecutive number and the y axis spreads
the values of years and averages. What I want is a chart where the X axis to
displays the years from the A column and the Y axis to displays the numbers
from the B column. How do I do this? Thanks.
Tomc

--

Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info