The easiest way to do this is to use the plus icon. Notice the horizontal axis scale was already adjusted by Excel automatically to fit the data. I'll double click the axis, and set the minimum to 100. To help make the relationship between height and weight clear, I'm going to set the lower bound to 100. Next let's adjust the vertical axis scale. Just select the title, type an equal sign, and click the cell. Now, since we already have a decent title in cell B3, I'll use that in the chart. X values come from column C and the Y values come from column D. Here you can see there is one data series. Let's check Select Data to see how the chart is set up. When I click the mouse, Excel builds the chart. The first preview shows what we want - this chart shows markers only, plotted with height on the horizontal axis and weight on the vertical axis. Here I'll select all data for height and weight, then click the scatter icon next to recommended charts.
When creating scatter charts, it's generally best to select only the X and Y values, to avoid confusing Excel. Let's create a scatter plot to show how height and weight are related.
On this worksheet, we have the height and weight for 10 high school football players. A scatter chart has a horizontal and vertical axis, and both axes are value axes designed to plot numeric data.
#How to add axis labels on scatter plots in excel how to
In this video, we'll look at how to create a scatter plot, sometimes called an XY scatter chart, in Excel.Ī scatter plot or scatter chart is a chart used to show the relationship between two quantitative variables.