How to Change Chart Names on the Vertical & Horizontal Axis in Excel. Descriptive labels on an Excel chart enhance its readability and help you interpret the information the chart contains.

How to Change the X-Axis Range in Excel Charts. For a business owner, Microsoft Excel 2010 provides an excellent platform for storing numerical information about your business.

Because we can’t assign laptop names or graphic chip labels to the base of each line, we removed the numbers at the bottom, aka the horizontal value axis, or X-axis.

Notice that in this case making the vertical axis horizontal caused the Excel default for the horizontal labels to slant which I find distracting. We are now left with the two positions on the top ...