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Chart 3 items
I used an area block chart to show 2 items stacked on top of each other. Now
I want to add a 3rd item represented by points on each stack, connected by a line. Any suggestions? Custom charts don't seem to work. (Using Excel 2003) |
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Chart 3 items
On Thu, 10 May 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
Sandy said: I used an area block chart to show 2 items stacked on top of each other. Now I want to add a 3rd item represented by points on each stack, connected by a line. Any suggestions? Custom charts don't seem to work. (Using Excel 2003) The key to making any of these charts work the way you want is to realise that you can select the "chart type" of a *series*. In other words, chart type is not limited to one type per chart, but can be as many different types as you have items. You can even have one item be a column chart, and another be a horizontal bar chart, even though the two types can look very strange together on the same area! (that can be exploited, if you know how: for instance, a horizontal bar chart plus an XY scatter chart makes a "dot plot", which is otherwise a type of graph utterly unknown to Excel) So, you already have your two items. Use the menu to select Chart.. Add Data... then follow the instructions to add your third item. Either that, or you can just start all over again with a new chart, this time selecting all three items at once. The third item will at first look just like another stacked block, but don't despair. Right click on the item and select "Chart type", then choose "Line", and that item will become the points and lines you want! The built in chart types, even the so-called "Combination Chart" and "Custom Chart", formats are useless at this stuff. But once you've discovered you can make an individual "item" (i.e. series) be its own type of chart, the sky's the limit to the different types of chart you can mix up. (the exception is Bubble Charts: they won't let you mix anything else with them) -- 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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Chart 3 items
(the exception is Bubble Charts: they won't let you mix anything else
with them) Another exception is 3D charts, but nobody who cares about data presentation should use such abominations. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Del Cotter" wrote in message ... On Thu, 10 May 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting, Sandy said: I used an area block chart to show 2 items stacked on top of each other. Now I want to add a 3rd item represented by points on each stack, connected by a line. Any suggestions? Custom charts don't seem to work. (Using Excel 2003) The key to making any of these charts work the way you want is to realise that you can select the "chart type" of a *series*. In other words, chart type is not limited to one type per chart, but can be as many different types as you have items. You can even have one item be a column chart, and another be a horizontal bar chart, even though the two types can look very strange together on the same area! (that can be exploited, if you know how: for instance, a horizontal bar chart plus an XY scatter chart makes a "dot plot", which is otherwise a type of graph utterly unknown to Excel) So, you already have your two items. Use the menu to select Chart.. Add Data... then follow the instructions to add your third item. Either that, or you can just start all over again with a new chart, this time selecting all three items at once. The third item will at first look just like another stacked block, but don't despair. Right click on the item and select "Chart type", then choose "Line", and that item will become the points and lines you want! The built in chart types, even the so-called "Combination Chart" and "Custom Chart", formats are useless at this stuff. But once you've discovered you can make an individual "item" (i.e. series) be its own type of chart, the sky's the limit to the different types of chart you can mix up. (the exception is Bubble Charts: they won't let you mix anything else with them) -- 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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