How Excel Charts Work A chart has an x-axis range and a y-axis range to show the correlation between two different data sets. The x-axis is the horizontal category line.

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 ...

This guide will show you how to create a Histogram Chart in Microsoft Excel. Add your data, click on Insert, Format it and you are done!

Excel 2016's many new features include six new chart types. Here we cover Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall, which cover statistical, trend, and other relationships.

If you have uneven distribution of data in your Excel chart, here is a better way to change the automatic axis settings.