X-Axis Labels BETWEEN Bars on Histogram?

Is it possible to put x-axis labels between the bars of a histogram in Numbers?
It becomes ambiguous in a chart like this (see photo) when the labels are directly below the frequency bar. For instance, looking at the bar above 1, did 14.44% of the weight fall between 0 and 1 or did it fall between 1 and 2?
Is there a way to put frequency bars between x-axis labels? Maybe a work around is to label the tick-marks themselves?

Cryptic,
Your graphic isn't showing. Not necessarily your problem - happens frequently on this discussion site.
You can label the bars any way you wish, but of course that would be more laborious. You could label them 0-1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, etc. in Column A, formatted as text.
Shifting the labels would require some graphics trickery. You can simply turn off the automatic labels and lay your own custom labels below the category axis, shifted by half a bar interval.
Jerry

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Hi id,
Thank you for your response. I hope you are doing well.
There is an example in the LabVIEW Example Finder (Help>>Find Examples..). It is titled, Stacked Bar Graph. You can search for it if you switch tabs in the Example Finder window. This should help you create a stacked bar graph. To help you with your veritcal axis labels, here is a knowledge base link that details the process:
How Can I Customize the X-Axis Labels On My LabVIEW Graph/Chart So They Appear Vertically?
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/1F7C1B089E45908E86256C8C0051894A?OpenDocument
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Best regards,
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I think this forum has no support for file upload so I will add links to the xMII workbench screenshots so you guys can see my chart/query configuration.
This is the XACUTE Query used by the chart: http://www.vetta-group.com:8080/imgs/xacute_config.PNG
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- Data mapping: http://www.vetta-group.com:8080/imgs/data_mapping.PNG
- X-axis: http://www.vetta-group.com:8080/imgs/xaxis.PNG
- Y-axis: http://www.vetta-group.com:8080/imgs/yaxis.PNG
- Server scaling:http://www.vetta-group.com:8080/imgs/server_scaling.PNG
- Data series:http://www.vetta-group.com:8080/imgs/data_series.PNG
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
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 <![CDATA[
 import mx.charts.HitData;
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 import mx.charts.ChartItem;
 import mx.charts.chartClasses.Series;
 import mx.messaging.AbstractConsumer;
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 E: 25,
 G: 35,
 S: 25,
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 S: 20,
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 term1: {
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 S: 25,
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 fill="{fill4}" stroke="{stroke}" />
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 fill="{fill2}" stroke="{stroke}" />
 <mx:ColumnSeries xField="term2" yField="S" displayName="Satisfactory"
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 <mx:ColumnSeries xField="term2" yField="N" displayName="Needs improvement"
 dataFunction="onDataFunction"
 fill="{fill4}" stroke="{stroke}" />
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 </mx:ColumnSet>
 </mx:series>
 <mx:horizontalAxis>
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 </mx:horizontalAxis>
 </mx:ColumnChart>
 <mx:HBox width="100%" horizontalAlign="center">
 <mx:Legend dataProvider="{columnChart}" direction="horizontal" width="500" height="30" />
 </mx:HBox>
</mx:Application>

Hi id,
Thank you for your response. I hope you are doing well.
There is an example in the LabVIEW Example Finder (Help>>Find Examples..). It is titled, Stacked Bar Graph. You can search for it if you switch tabs in the Example Finder window. This should help you create a stacked bar graph. To help you with your veritcal axis labels, here is a knowledge base link that details the process:
How Can I Customize the X-Axis Labels On My LabVIEW Graph/Chart So They Appear Vertically?
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/1F7C1B089E45908E86256C8C0051894A?OpenDocument
Let me know if these examples help.
Best regards,
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