column titles

[Curtis Croulet]

I have a column chart. Excel has automatically inserted consecutive numbers
underneath the columns. I want to replace these with text, unique labels
for each column. I thought this would be an ultra-simple, ultra-intuitive
task, but I can't find anywhere to do it in Excel, and I can't find anything
on the web. How do I replace Excel's default numbers with text?

 

[Bernard Liengme]

You need to set the data out like this

north 23
east 45
south 12
east 24

and make your chart using all this data; the names (North, etc) will be the
x-axis labels. You have no x-values so Excel provided 1,2,3
best wishes

 

[Jon Peltier]

If you don't want to reconstruct the chart, go to Chart menu > Source Data >
Series tab, select the series from the listbox, then click in the Category
(X axis) Labels box, and select the range containing the axis labels.

- Jon