Axis labels (automatically assigned by Excel when you create your chart) connect this visual information with specific data categories, providing the context readers need to make sense of your chart. The field created by these intersecting axes contain visual indicators (e.g., bars, columns, dots) that give readers an intuitive understanding of your chart data.
One of them will be a Value axis, which displays numerical values that measure charted categories, and the other will be a Category axis, which displays one or more data series that measured against each other by numerical values. The horizontal line is called the x-axis the vertical line is called the y-axis. In charts, axes are the two lines that frame your data.
This document will explain several options on how to add more features to your chart. Learning how to use these charting features in Excel 2007 can make your charts more efficient. This article is based on legacy software.Īdding titles, legends, axes, labels, tables, and gridlines to your chart can give it a helpful visual boost. All you have to do is make a Marked Line Chart, add the labels, and modify the circle markers around them.(Archives) Microsoft Excel 2007: Working with Chart Elements To do so, select only that point (you will probably have to select the line and then click again to select just that point) and then change the Marker Fill on that point to match the Marker Line and the line itself. This isn’t always necessary, but it can be used to highlight certain points. The last touch is to fill in the final point of the chart.You want the Marker Fill to be white (not empty because you will then see the line behind it) and the Marker Line to match the color of your line chart.Use the Format menu (select the line and use that CTRL+1/CMD+1 keyboard shortcut) to change the marker type to the circle and increase the size so it neatly surrounds each label.
Using the “Format data labels” menu (accessible by right-clicking on the labels themselves), place them at the Center of each point.Add data labels by right-clicking on the line and selecting “Add data labels” from the menu.I’ve also removed the x-axis tick marks you can do so by selecting using the options in the horizontal axis format menu (accessible through the Ribbon, right-clicking, or using the CTRL+1/CMD+1 keyboard shortcut). Delete the horizontal gridlines and the y-axis (simply select each and hit the delete key).There are only six steps to it, so here we go: It’s also quite easy to make this in Excel, so I thought a quick tutorial was in order. I generally like this approach-you keep the same encoding method for the line and adding the labels in this way make for a nice design touch. It’s just a simple line chart with the data labels placed on the point instead of above or below, as is the usual case. I was asked recently if it is possible to make this graph in Excel.