Microsoft Power BI desktop -- after importing excel columns col1 and col2 make a chart with col2 (y-axis) vs col1 (x-axis). Very much like the title says, after importing a spreadsheet from excel, which I can do successfully, I want to make col2 the y-axis and col-1 the x-axis. Assuming they have the same number of rows, which they do, this should be fairly trivial. However, Power BI plots them jointly on the y-axis, instead of in y vs x format. There are various pre-defined templates, but I want to do this without such a template.

For a stacked column chart, I am getting date-columns to work as x-axis, but if I want to do a plot with a non-date column, they all show up on 1 or more y-axis.

For the scatter plot mentioned in the accepted. answer below, I can set the columns as axis. This works, the Fields Section of the Visualization pane should not be confused (as I initially did) with the separate Fields pane.
I am completely new to Microsoft Power BI, but have a long software-development background.

This was copied from my own StackOverflow question here:

 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64562757/microsoft-power-bi-desktop-columns-col1-and-col2-from-excel-make-a-chart-wi

Microsoft Power BI desktop -- after importing excel columns col1 and col2 make a chart with col2 (y-axis) vs col1 (x-axis). Very much like the title says, after importing a spreadsheet from excel, which I can do successfully, I want to make col2 the y-axis and col-1 the x-axis. Assuming they have the same number of rows, which they do, this should be fairly trivial. However, Power BI plots them jointly on the y-axis, instead of in y vs x format. There are various pre-defined templates, but I want to do this without such a template.

For a stacked column chart, I am getting date-columns to work as x-axis, but if I want to do a plot with a non-date column, they all show up on 1 or more y-axis.

For the scatter plot mentioned in the accepted. answer below, I can set the columns as axis. This works, the Fields Section of the Visualization pane should not be confused (as I initially did) with the separate Fields pane.
I am completely new to Microsoft Power BI, but have a long software-development background.

This version (superuser) of the question has now been edited and answered. This question was originally copied from my own StackOverflow question which I have since deleted: The URL may still be available to certain moderators, etc: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64562757/microsoft-power-bi-desktop-columns-col1-and-col2-from-excel-make-a-chart-wi

Microsoft Power BI desktop -- after importing excel columns col1 and col2 make a chart with col2 (y-axis) vs col1 (x-axis). Very much like the title says, after importing a spreadsheet from excel, which I can do successfully, I want to make col2 the y-axis and col-1 the x-axis. Assuming they have the same number of rows, which they do, this should be fairly trivial. However, Power BI plots them jointly on the y-axis, instead of in y vs x format. There are various pre-defined templates, but I want to do this without such a template. It should be easy, but I am not finding it so. I am completely new to Microsoft Power BI, but have a long software-development background.

This was copied from my own StackOverflow question here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64562757/microsoft-power-bi-desktop-columns-col1-and-col2-from-excel-make-a-chart-wi

Microsoft Power BI desktop -- after importing excel columns col1 and col2 make a chart with col2 (y-axis) vs col1 (x-axis). Very much like the title says, after importing a spreadsheet from excel, which I can do successfully, I want to make col2 the y-axis and col-1 the x-axis. Assuming they have the same number of rows, which they do, this should be fairly trivial. However, Power BI plots them jointly on the y-axis, instead of in y vs x format. There are various pre-defined templates, but I want to do this without such a template.

For a stacked column chart, I am getting date-columns to work as x-axis, but if I want to do a plot with a non-date column, they all show up on 1 or more y-axis.

For the scatter plot mentioned in the accepted. answer below, I can set the columns as axis. This works, the Fields Section of the Visualization pane should not be confused (as I initially did) with the separate Fields pane. 
I am completely new to Microsoft Power BI, but have a long software-development background.

This was copied from my own StackOverflow question here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64562757/microsoft-power-bi-desktop-columns-col1-and-col2-from-excel-make-a-chart-wi