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Scale the Y-Axis

Sometimes the data that is used to display charts does not span a wide range of values. For example, a simple bar display shows inventory levels for three products at 14,000, 14,150, and 13,900. The labels and grid lines on the y-axis are at intervals of 500, making the individual values for each product difficult to distinguish. You can scale the axis to focus on the 14,000 range. This has the effect of visually separating the tops of each bar in the display.

For example, your report for the revenues of Personal Accessories contains the following display.

To make the data more meaningful, you can scale the y-axis to give you the following:

You can scale the y-axis for the following display types:

This feature is unavailable if the range of all values is greater than the minimum value.

Steps
  1. On the y-axis of the display, click the Scale Axis button .
  2. To reset the original scale of the axis, click the Restore Axis button .

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