The interval between the gridlines in an Excel chart is typically blank, but you can highlight the intervals using an alternating pattern by changing the formatting for the gridlines themselves.

Captions are not automatically created by Microsoft Excel, but they greatly assist your reader in understanding the data being displayed in your graph. Information you may want to add to a caption ...

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