Not sure I understand exactly what is wrong. It sounds like you need to do something with the horizontal (value) axis formatting options for the x axis: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...255.aspx?CTT=1 (I know the help file claims to be for the vertical (value) axis, but you need to recognize that, in a scatter plot, the horizontal axis is also a value axis and has the same formatting options available)

If I understand what you want, you either need to change the minimum value for the axis and/or change the "vertical axis crosses at" parameter(s) to move the vertical axis relative to the data.