So, the first thing I'll do is set the axis type to text. This happens because Excel automatically sets the axis type to date, which makes sense since we have dates in the data. The first thing you probably notice is that there are some gaps in the columns. Let me insert a standard column chart, and let's run through some options in adjusting the labels that appear in the horizontal category axis. We have a date, quantity, and a field to indicate batch number.
Here we have a simple set of generic shipping data.
In this video, we'll look at some examples of formatting axis labels.
