Axes and Ticks Overview
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Axes and ticks provide directional and incremental points of reference for your data.

Scale item

Example

 

Axis Lines

Extend the full length of the scale along each axis.

Tick lines and labels

Indicate intervals on a scale. Major ticks mark either intervals on the scale or categories, and have labels. Minor ticks mark smaller intervals between major ticks and do not have labels.

Axis labels

Identify the variables associated with the scale.

Note

Minor ticks cannot be used with categorical scales, because there are no logical intervals between categories. See Continuous and Categorical Scales. Time, percent, and probability scales also do not allow minor ticks.

Axes and Ticks subdialog boxes all contain essentially the same elements, but differ in wording based on the graph type. Click the following links for graph-specific axes and ticks information:

·    Graphs with categorical scales

·    3D Graphs

·    Time Series and Area graphs

·    Marginal Plots

·    All other graphs