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Hi,

As long as the chart type is not xy-scatter you would select the x axis,
right click and Format Axis.
On the Axis Options page is the Axis Type: Text Axis.

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Andy

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"Skip4t" wrote in message
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Thanks, forgot to mention I am in Excel 2007. I've tried everything and
can't
get it right!

"Bernard Liengme" wrote:

Excel is being a little too helpful.
Right click the chart; from shortcut menu select Chart Options
Open Axes tab and select for x-axis Category rather than Automatic or
Time-Scale
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I have 5 dates in a series of data: -
31/12/07
31/01/08
28/02/08
31/03/08
30/04/08
when I create the chart these dates appear as: -
01/12/07
01/01/08
01/02/08
01/03/08
01/04/08
How can I get the dates on the axis to match the dates in the data
series?





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