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

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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