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 Intervals on an X-Axis in Excel. The X-axis, which is the horizontal axis, on most Excel charts does not use numeric intervals like the vertical Y-axis does.

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 ...

If an Excel chart’s vertical axis is incremented by 20,000, and most of its data points are between 70,000 and 550,000, the chart will look somewhat crowded at the top if the horizontal axis ...