Changing Base Unit on Date X-Axis with secondary Y Axis

Meredith

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I have a line graph showing two sets of data over time (sales and price).
Because sales tends to be a larg number and price tends to be a small number, I have price on a secondary y axis.


The data comes in four week time periods marked by its ending date. The chart defaults to months but then ends up charting dates like "September 1, 2009" and "September 29, 2009" in the same column.

So I change the base unit of the x axis to days instead of months, which, if everything is on the same y axis, works.
but if not, it works for one line but the other ends up smooshed up against the left side of the chart.

What's going on? how can i fix this?
 

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