Excel: How to create a chart that automatically scales the axis

I have 2 columns with values, say A and B which values I want to use as X and Y axes values correspondingly.

The values are the following:

A: 412 684 944 2009 9601

B: 7813,4 10377,6 11138,8 16216 606090

When I do it with help of wizard: Insert->2D chart->Right Mouse Click->Select Data after the data is selected it shows me the following chart that is not unfortunately scaled by X axis: enter image description here

Is there some way how I can automatically scale the X axis?

Timofey

Posted 2011-02-28T11:20:18.610

Reputation: 911

Answers

In order to do that, you must select the chart type as Scatter > Scatter with Straight Lines and Markers. Then your graph becomes this:

enter image description here

Mehper C. Palavuzlar

Posted 2011-02-28T11:20:18.610

Reputation: 51 093

Ok, this is also fine :-) – Timofey – 2011-02-28T13:56:11.500

The very first solution is to change the axis type: Double click on the axis->Axis options->Axis Type: Date Axis.

Timofey

Posted 2011-02-28T11:20:18.610

Reputation: 911

This won't help. Just try it. – Mehper C. Palavuzlar – 2011-02-28T12:15:14.140

This helps, I have tried :-) – Timofey – 2011-02-28T13:52:09.490

Well, how does Excel interpret these numbers when you format them as date?: 412, 684, 944, 2009, 9601. – Mehper C. Palavuzlar – 2011-02-28T14:12:44.053

Nobody prohibits Excel to interpret the numbers as milliseconds – Timofey – 2011-02-28T14:48:14.547