Line Chart in excel with date times

Question

I'm trying to create a line chart in excel where the x axis is date time.

ie, the format is

But when I highlight the columns and click the line chart icon I get

Excel seems to insist on using only one of the dates and always puts the data series in the title.

This seems very strange to me.

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

您应该标记完整的范围A和B，然后按添加折线图的按钮。

Answer 2

I figured it out, excel was formatting my second column of numbers as text. So the graph was not generating.

I didn't notice it at first, but the column indentation indicates that those numbers are actually text fields.