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Negative Values in Stacked Bar Charts
I'd like to include negative values in stacked bar charts, with the total
stacked value equal to the sum of each of the subtotals. However, when I tested this, it appears that Excel just shows the negative components at the bottom of the bar, below zero, but the stacked total still seems to reflect the sum of the positive components. Is there a way of showing a stacked bar the way I'm trying to do it? Todd |
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Negative Values in Stacked Bar Charts
Hi,
In order to plot the chart how you want you would have to make the negative values positive. You may need to explain further why you need a negative value should be displayed in a positive way? Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "T. Jenkins" wrote in message ... I'd like to include negative values in stacked bar charts, with the total stacked value equal to the sum of each of the subtotals. However, when I tested this, it appears that Excel just shows the negative components at the bottom of the bar, below zero, but the stacked total still seems to reflect the sum of the positive components. Is there a way of showing a stacked bar the way I'm trying to do it? Todd |
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Negative Values in Stacked Bar Charts
I probably wasn't clear before. The bottom line is that I wanted the total height of the stacked bar to be the sum of the individual values. So if my data included 50, 100, and -25, then the top of the bar should be at 125. With a basic stacked bar, the height is 150, and it appears that the -25 has no affect. My workaround was to create a separate line graph showing the totals of each data set. This works, but I was hoping to just use the stacked bar. Thanks, Todd "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, In order to plot the chart how you want you would have to make the negative values positive. You may need to explain further why you need a negative value should be displayed in a positive way? Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "T. Jenkins" wrote in message ... I'd like to include negative values in stacked bar charts, with the total stacked value equal to the sum of each of the subtotals. However, when I tested this, it appears that Excel just shows the negative components at the bottom of the bar, below zero, but the stacked total still seems to reflect the sum of the positive components. Is there a way of showing a stacked bar the way I'm trying to do it? Todd |
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Negative Values in Stacked Bar Charts
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
T. Jenkins said: I probably wasn't clear before. The bottom line is that I wanted the total height of the stacked bar to be the sum of the individual values. So if my data included 50, 100, and -25, then the top of the bar should be at 125. With a basic stacked bar, the height is 150, and it appears that the -25 has no affect. My workaround was to create a separate line graph showing the totals of each data set. This works, but I was hoping to just use the stacked bar. How do you think such a thing would look? Either the 100 or the 50 would have to be subtracted from in order to total 125, and then there is no stacked bar chart any more. Have you considered a waterfall graph instead? -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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