Numbers CHART help: Adjusting X and Y axis

I'm making a chart in numbers for a school project (used to use excel but with my recent purchase of my macbook pro I decided to lose Microsoft office and just use iWork 08.

I have entered 4 columns of information in a spreadsheet with names above each column. My first column needs to be my X-axis while columns 2, 3, 4 need to be the information that is on my chart (line chart) and the Y-axis.

When I highlight all 4 columns and make a line graph it makes 4 lines (I only need 3) and the Y-axis is correct but there is no numbers for my X-axis. I then tried just highlighting columns 2, 3, 4 and it worked great.... I got the 3 lines I needed in my line graph, but then I had no X-axis again and the numbers I need for the X-axis are in my first column.

Not sure how I can incorporate just the 3 columns to actually put on the graph then get the numbers for the X-axis using that first column.

I hope I explained myself clearly (probably not) so please ask any questions if you have any. Thanks in advance!

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 2, 2008 2:29 PM

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Mar 2, 2008 2:47 PM in response to Blake M.

Great! Thanks for the quick response... that's what I figured out, they have to be in the headers. You can't add the y axis then the x axis like in excel.

My next issue is I cannot seem to move the title of my chart to the bottom of the chart instead of the top, along with adjusting the distance that my x and y axis titles are from the graph itself.

Sorry for what I'm sure seems to be silly questions... numbers isn't as close to excel as I thought haha.

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