label the category axis from 0 to 30, step 5 in an excel chart

My excel chart is a graph of Interest's share and Principal's share of each
Monthly Payment of the 360 payments of a 30-year mortgage. It's a nice
continuous graph that shows the point where Principal's share becomes
dominant (at 18.5 years).

All i've wanted to do these past three days is have an x-axis labeled with
tick marks starting at 0, ending nicely at exactly 30 , and with the tick
marks 5,10, 15, 20 and 25 in between.
Why is this so difficult a challenge?
Why did i have to buy that $25.00 dummies book and still not find the answer?

Thanks for the help.

Right click the x-axis; menu pops up; click on Format Axis
In dialog box, click Scale tab, replace the Man and Max and tick setting by
what you want
DO NOT have a check mark in the Auto boxes
And it that does not work come back for more.
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Bernard V Liengme
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"johnny hanlon" johnny hanlon @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
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My excel chart is a graph of Interest's share and Principal's share of
each
Monthly Payment of the 360 payments of a 30-year mortgage. It's a nice
continuous graph that shows the point where Principal's share becomes
dominant (at 18.5 years).

All i've wanted to do these past three days is have an x-axis labeled with
tick marks starting at 0, ending nicely at exactly 30 , and with the tick
marks 5,10, 15, 20 and 25 in between.
Why is this so difficult a challenge?
Why did i have to buy that $25.00 dummies book and still not find the
answer?

Thanks for the help.

Bernard forgot to remind you to make an XY chart, not a Line chart.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com/
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"Bernard Liengme" wrote in message
...
Right click the x-axis; menu pops up; click on Format Axis
In dialog box, click Scale tab, replace the Man and Max and tick setting
by what you want
DO NOT have a check mark in the Auto boxes
And it that does not work come back for more.
--
Bernard V Liengme
www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme
remove caps from email

"johnny hanlon" johnny hanlon @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in
message ...
My excel chart is a graph of Interest's share and Principal's share of
each
Monthly Payment of the 360 payments of a 30-year mortgage. It's a nice
continuous graph that shows the point where Principal's share becomes
dominant (at 18.5 years).

All i've wanted to do these past three days is have an x-axis labeled
with
tick marks starting at 0, ending nicely at exactly 30 , and with the
tick
marks 5,10, 15, 20 and 25 in between.
Why is this so difficult a challenge?
Why did i have to buy that $25.00 dummies book and still not find the
answer?

Thanks for the help.