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Default 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?

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