Hold Ctrl and click the second column header.) Create a scatter chart with the Quick Access Toolbar button. (If you use Ctrl-Shift-Down to select data, you’ll need to release all three buttons before clicking the second column. In this case, we’ll be plotting non-adjacent data, so hold Ctrl when you select the second column. To put this template to use, we’ll create a chart from scratch. Now, that template will be accessible both inside this workbook and in others. This will open up a window for you to save a Chart Template File. Right-click on the original chart and choose Save as Template. There’s another method that will work across workbooks. It only works well for copying chart formatting in the same workbook. The disadvantage to this method is that it’s difficult to use across multiple workbooks. The attached file was created with Excel 2010 and saved in Excel 2003 compatible format.This is a quick way to copy formatting from an existing chart to a new one. Here is an image of the finished chart again:ĭownload the attached sample file to study each of the steps above. Now the secondary X and Y axes appear in the place where you’d normally expect the primary axes, but they start at 100% at the crossing point and go to 0% at the end. Open the format dialog for each axis and select the Values in revers order tick box. The secondary axes are showing at the top and on the right of the chart. The chart will now look something like this: In the attached example, the marker is a circle with a blue fill, no borders and a size 7. If you want, choose a different marker symbol and different marker color.
CREATING SCATTER CHART IN EXCEL SERIES
Select the visible data series, and open the Format Series dialog. The remaing steps are really all about formatting. Now your chart will look something like this: In Excel 2007 and later, click the Layout tab in the Chart Tools and select Axes – Secondary horizontal axis – Show default axis. In the Series Options area, select Secondary Axis and close the dialog box. Right-click the bundle of data markers that represents the newly added series and open the Format Series dialog (my preferred keyboard shortcut for that is Ctrl-1). Step 4 – send the main data to the secondary axis Since the scale of the existing axes ranges from-20 to 20 and the newly added data series is between 0 and 1, it all bunches up in one place. You’ll see a scramble of overlapping data points near the 0 cross-point of the two axes. Set the option to add the pasted values as a new series, with Values (Y) in Columns, and tick the Categories (X Labels) in First Column tick box. Now click the chart and use Paste Special.
Next, select the data in columns A and B, starting in A2 (i.e. Click each data series and set the line to none. The helper series are now no longer required, but we will just hide them instead of deleting them, so that their values still have an effect on the axes we see. After that, the chart looks something like this: Select each axis and set the minimum value to -20, maximum value to 20 and major unit to 5. Right-click on one of the dots in the chart and select Change Series Chart Type. Excel will create a chart that looks like this: Step 11: Right-click on one of the dots in the chart and select Change Series Chart Type. The result should look something like this:įormat each data series to show no markers, but set a visible line. In the top ribbon, select Insert > Charts > Scatter. Next, go to edit the data series set:Īdd a second data series with the settings: Select F2:G3, insert an XY chart and hit OK. Then, a second series is added with the data in F5:G6. The first step is to create an XY chart from the data in F2:G3. The data series will ultimately be formatted to be hidden, but to start the chart off, they will be visible. The quadrant data series are two dummy series that will be used only to set the X and Y axis for the quadrant dividers. This data will ultimately be plotted on the outer X and Y axes of the chart, which will be formatted to show percentages from 100% down to 0%.įirst, though, we need to take care of the lines that demarcate the quadrants. For this example, RANDBETWEEN was used to create a data sample with values ranging from 0 to 1.
The plotted data points are sourced from these two columns of values. Extra challenge: The X and Y axis run from 100% to 0% instead of the normal 0 to 100.įollowing is a step-by step for creating such a chart. Locate the Chart Studio graph image that you downloaded and then double-click it. On the INSERT tab inside Excel, in the ILLUSTRATIONS group, click PICTURE. Use a scatter plot (XY chart) to show scientific XY data. The goal: create a chart in Excel that plots data points on a percentage scale for X and Y, and also shows quadrants with a different scale. To add the Excel file to your workbook, click where you want to insert the picture inside Excel.