Once you do that, you’ll see that red square move to the top-left corner of your chart.ĥ.

Right-click in your chart and choose Select Data. You now need to add the x-values to the scatterplot series (remember, we named it “100%”). (Notice how the point moves over when you do so.)Ĥ. Show the Secondary Horizontal axis by going to the Axes menu under the Chart Layout button in the ribbon. Select the point, right-click to Format Data Series and plot the series on the Secondary Axis.ģ. Select that column and change it to a scatterplot.Ģ. When you click OK, you’ll see that you have a new column. It’s important you refer to cell D3 in the name field. Here’s my data:Ĭreate your column chart and then add the first scatterplot series by selecting data and adding this series. We will attach them to the secondary x- and y-axes and add a left-side data label. For this example, I’ll use four increments, and thus four separate scatterplots. However many gridlines you are going to use (if you use them!) will directly correspond to how many separate scatterplots you are going to need. Create your basic column chart and you’ll get your standard y-axis labels. You may think there are a lot of steps to this task, but they are all pretty minor and once you’re done you’ll be ready to combine charts and use scatterplots for a lot of different tasks. All we’re going to do is combine the column chart with four separate scatterplot series and use the names of those scatterplot series to label the y-axis. But don’t give up hope! There is a way! And it’s not too difficult, though it’s a little time consuming. You can’t select single axis labels in Excel, so you’ve got to go about it a different way. In other words, instead of adding percentage signs to every y-axis label or putting the phrase “Percentages” in the title or sub-title, she wanted a single percentage sign. I was at a conference earlier this fall and someone asked me whether it’s possible to create an Excel chart where only the first (top) y-axis label has a percentage sign format while the others were just number labels.

Excel graph axis label increments