title: Excel: Horizontal Axis Labels as Text
body: <p>I cannot for the life of me have the horizontal axss labels show as TEXT on my line graph.</p>
  
  <p>See the horizontal axis labels are showing as numbers (0, 5, 10, 15, etc)</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7ZWde.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7ZWde.png" alt="Graph"></a></p>
  
  <p>Although the data has "Q3 2011", "Q4 2011", etc.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qDE3i.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qDE3i.png" alt="Data"></a></p>
  
  <p>The data source even shows such values :</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jkYhP.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jkYhP.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>The axis options are as follows:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/afOIn.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/afOIn.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Expanding "Labels" doesn't reveal anything useful:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UsdsH.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UsdsH.png" alt="Labels"></a></p>