Excel defaults to a linear scale for graphs, but you can easily change it to logarithmic to suit wide data ranges or logarithmic phenomena. The Chart Wizard produces graphs with linear scales.

How to Draw to Scale in Excel. Use the drawing tools under the "Insert" menu in Microsoft Excel to draw an image to scale by tracing that image. One advantage of using Excel's drawing tools for ...

Excel usually does a good job second-guessing me when it chooses the scale for an axis on a chart. But sometimes, to better focus some data, I need to adjust that scale, and that’s when I run into ...