Bar Graphs X And Y Axis. Then the x axis has numbers representing different time periods or names of things being compared. Step 1 open microsoft excel.
The heights of the bars are proportional to the measured values. One axis the x axis throughout this guide shows the categories being compared and the other axis the y axis in our case represents a measured value. Bar graphs have three key attributes.
To do so click the a1 cell x axis and type in a label then do the same for the b1 cell y axis.
For example in the chart below the red bar appears as being more than twice as big as the blue bar which is misleading compared to the data. The vertical axis of the bar graph is called the y axis while the. It s in the top left side of the template window step 3 add labels for the graph s x and y axes. Sometimes bar graphs are made so that the bars are sidewise like in the graph below.
