Excel has two primary types of charts that graph data sets onto an axis: line charts and scatter charts. Depending on your settings, the two types of charts can look identical, but using the wrong one ...

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The X-axis, which is the horizontal axis, on most Excel charts does not use numeric intervals like the vertical Y-axis does. The X-axis contains either strings of text or a date under each set of data ...