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Old March 27th, 2009, 06:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Brandon Plank
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Default Cell/X Axis Issue

My chart pulls data from another spreadsheet and populates the chart.

The X axis pulls 2 cells and one has each word in it, i.e. one cell has
'Facility' and the other has 'Complaint'.
On the other spreadsheet, the cells are one above the other like:
Facility
Complaint

The issue is that the word 'Facility' ends up being perpendictular to
'Complaint' in the axis and I would like to have them both horizontal.

This is a screenshot so you have an idea what I'm talking about:
http://i41.tinypic.com/fc8x6x.jpg
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Old March 27th, 2009, 11:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Shane Devenshire[_3_]
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Default Cell/X Axis Issue

Hi,

If you use Excel's default axis for both lables there is nothing you can do
to change the alignment. However, if you create a dummy Y axis and associate
one set of labels with that and the other with the real Y axis you can get
what you need.

Jon Poltier has samples of dummy axes:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/

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Cheers,
Shane Devenshire


"Brandon Plank" wrote:

My chart pulls data from another spreadsheet and populates the chart.

The X axis pulls 2 cells and one has each word in it, i.e. one cell has
'Facility' and the other has 'Complaint'.
On the other spreadsheet, the cells are one above the other like:
Facility
Complaint

The issue is that the word 'Facility' ends up being perpendictular to
'Complaint' in the axis and I would like to have them both horizontal.

This is a screenshot so you have an idea what I'm talking about:
http://i41.tinypic.com/fc8x6x.jpg

 




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