Graph without Second Axis. The following steps were written assuming you have a chart in excel with more than one data set. If you wish to view the step-by-step, click the pic tutorial icon -> or you can follow the steps below. Select a point on the graph for the data set you want to put on the secondary axis.
Had the same trouble, but in 2013/2016 there is no 'Layout' tab under Chart Tools anymore. I FINALLY found a solution: Chart Tools - Add Chart Element - Axis - Secondary Horizontal This will separate out the x-axis so that your secondary axis will appear above the chart grid itself. Right click on that new x-axis and select 'Format Axis'. Under Axis Options, and Axis Position, you will see the On Tick Marks or Between Tick Marks options. Choose the On Tick Marks. Then you can go back and turn off the Secondary Horizontal option.
This will bring you back to just one normal X-Axis and your lines/areas will stretch from one end of the chart to the other!
Sometimes just one Value axis is not enough! Of course that observation is only true if your data demands a second axis. Our example data for this tutorial pertains to the average temperature and rainfall in London across the 12 calendar months of a year. Figure 1 below, shows a chart that depicts this data from January to December. The temperature is depicted in Celsius and the rainfall is in millimeters. What you should note carefully is that the value range of temperature spans between 30 and 70, whereas the range for rainfall is in between 0 to 12 (approximately).
A chart that results from this data doesn't live up to the comparison, it's almost like, we are comparing items that cannot be compared! Figure 1: Chart with two Data Series To help your audience comprehend this data better, you could create two charts, but that’s an overkill since there’s a better, more elegant solution. You should span this data on two Value axes within the same chart, one for the temperature and the other for the rainfall. In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to add a Secondary Value axis to your charts to overcome this kind of problem. Tip: To learn more about axes, refer to our tutorial. Follow these steps to get started:.
Open your presentation and navigate to the slide that contains your chart. Within the chart, to which you want to add a second Value axis. Right-click (or Ctrl+click) this series to access the context menu, as shown Figure 2. From the context menu, choose the Format Data Series option (refer to Figure 2 again). Figure 2: Format Data Series option selected. This summons the Format Data Series dialog box that you can see in Figure 3, in this dialog box, select the Axis option within the sidebar.
Next select the radio button in front of the Secondary axis option, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 3. Figure 3: Secondary axis option selected for one of the series. This adds a secondary Value axis that maps your selected series, as shown in Figure 4. Note that the on both the Value axes show different numbered ranges, while the Primary Value axis displays between 0.0 and 14.0, the Secondary Value axis spans a completely different range between 0 and 80.
Figure 4: Secondary Value Axis added We might have solved the problem of comprehending the actual values better now, but we have a new problem to solve! As you can see in Figure 4 above, the Data Series are overlapping each other. Columns depicting rainfall are completely hiding most of the columns representing the Average temperature. To solve this problem, you need to change the chart type of any one of the Series. Select the Series that you want to change the type of, and right-click (or Ctrl+click) to access the context menu, as shown Figure 5. From the context menu, chose the Change Series Chart Type option (refer to Figure 5 again). Figure 5: Change the Chart Type of selected Series.
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This activates the Charts tab on the and makes all visible as shown in Figure 6. Choose a new chart type for the selected Series and click on it, we chose the Marked Line chart type (refer to Figure 6 again).
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Figure 6: Choose a new chart type for the selected Series. This changes the selected Series to the new chart type. In Figure 7 you can see that the Series representing the rainfall has changed to a Marked Line. Figure 7: Chart type changed for the selected Series Creating a combination chart of this type with two series makes your data appear so much better, and it also ends up being so much easier on the eye for your audience. You cannot compare apples and oranges, but they can still co-exist!. Look closely at Figure 7 again, and you will realize that there’s no easy way to identify if a particular series uses the Primary axis or the Secondary axis. With just two series, this is an easy problem to solve, we just of the axes labels to match the color of the series as shown in Figure 8 (compare Figures 8 and 7).
Figure 8: Font color changed for the Secondary Axis labels. Save your presentation.