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Default Chart - making positive values into negative ones?

"Jon Peltier" wrote in message
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"smartin" wrote in message
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Victor Delta wrote:
I have an Excel chart where one of the sets of data (vertical bars)
would be better displayed on the underside of the x axis (i.e. negative
instead of positive). Is there any way I can make this happen using the
chart formatting features?

If not presumably I shall create another column to calculate the
negative data, and then plot that.


That is indeed your best bet.

Additionally, a stacked column chart will avoid staggering the positive
and negative values along the x-axis.


You can avoid this offset by changing the overlap to 100%.


Many thanks to both of you for your suggestions.

V