I would like to build a column chart with 3 orders of magnitude.

I envisage this as two series plotted as columns in three parts

1) A Y-axis with Y-max = 100 and say 3 X-labels followed by
2) A change of scale with another Y-axis with Y-max = 10 and another 3
x-labels

and now it gets difficult ...

3) yet another another change of scale with a Y-axis with Y-max = 1
and another 3 x-labels.

Is it possible to draw dummy y-axes on a column chart?

Steve

Hi,

See Jon Peltier's instructions, which should be applicable to column chart.
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/TertiaryAxis.html

Cheers
Andy

SteveG wrote:
I would like to build a column chart with 3 orders of magnitude.

I envisage this as two series plotted as columns in three parts

1) A Y-axis with Y-max = 100 and say 3 X-labels followed by
2) A change of scale with another Y-axis with Y-max = 10 and another 3
x-labels

and now it gets difficult ...

3) yet another another change of scale with a Y-axis with Y-max = 1
and another 3 x-labels.

Is it possible to draw dummy y-axes on a column chart?

Steve

I tried this but it only seems to work with line or scatter charts.

I might convert my columns into 'lollipops' with markers on vertical
error bars and add an false x-axis for labels. I think this will be
ok with Jon's technique.

(This does seem a long way round though. Why doesn't Excel
incorporate some of these more complex charts? Surely there has been
enough material on Forums to steer MS to cover new ground.)

Thanks

Steve