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Excel for Microsoft 365 Outlook for Microsoft 365 More... You can add predefined lines or bars to charts in several apps for Office. By adding lines, including series lines, drop lines, high-low lines, and up-down bars, to specific chart can help you analyze the data that is displayed.
Select Secondary Axis for the data series you want to show. Select the drop-down arrow and choose Line. Select OK. When the values in a chart vary widely from data series to data series, you can plot one or more data series on a secondary axis.
By default, Excel determines the minimum and maximum scale values of the vertical (value) axis, also known as the y axis, when you create a chart. However, you can customize the scale to better meet your needs.
Value axes provide a variety of options, such as setting the scale to logarithmic. Other chart types, such as column, line, and area charts, show numeric values on the vertical (value) axis only and show textual groupings (or categories) on the horizontal axis.
Learn how to add a trendline in Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook to display visual data trends. Format a trend or moving average line to a chart.
The horizontal (category) axis, also known as the x axis, of a chart displays text labels instead of numeric intervals and provides fewer scaling options than are available for a vertical (value) axis, also known as the y axis, of the chart.
You can format the labels to show specific labels elements like, the percentages, series name, or category name. There are a lot of formatting options for data labels. You can use leader lines to connect the labels, change the shape of the label, and resize a data label.
Change the text and format of category axis labels and the number format of value axis labels in your chart (graph).
Reverse the plotting order of categories or values in a chart. On a chart, do one of the following: To change the plotting order of categories, click the horizontal (category) axis. To change the plotting order of values, click the vertical (value) axis.
Change the text and format of category axis labels and the number format of value axis labels in your chart (graph in Office 2016 for Windows. You can also set other options in the Format Axis task pane.
You can set your own values to display the exact error amounts you want. For example, you can show a 10 percent positive and negative error amount in the results of a scientific experiment like this: You can use error bars in 2-D area, bar, column, line, xy (scatter), and bubble charts.