Linear scales are used in architecture, engineering and cartography to communicate the relative measurements of an object. Use Excel's built-in tools to create, customize and modify a linear scale.

Linear price scale—also referred to as arithmetic—represents price on the Y-axis using equidistant spacing between the designated prices. Linear charts display absolute values.

Linear price scales—also referred to as arithmetic—represent an asset's price on the y-axis using equidistant spacing between price marks.

Since we’re used to linear scales, this means that the intuitive way most people understand the earthquake scales — say, that anything below 3 is small, 3 to 6 is medium, ...

On the face of it, making a clock that displays the time by moving a pointer along a linear scale shouldn’t be too hard. After all, steppers and linear drives should do the job in a jiffy. Th… ...

Excel defaults to a linear scale for graphs, but you can easily change it to logarithmic to suit wide data ranges or logarithmic phenomena. The Chart Wizard produces graphs with linear scales.