I have three series that I am plotting against categories.
They are a base value and a delta, and a marker series.
By stacking them and hiding the base I get a floating bar showing the size
of the delta for each category. By showing the marker series as a linechart
with markers only I get a symbol showing where this value fits in the range.

Ideally I would like a bar chart, categories on the vertical axis, and
values from 0 to 100% on the horizontal axis, with very narrow bars -
thinner than what I can get with 500% gapwidth.

To get that I am plotting to give a floating column chart and pasting that
sideways to Powerpoint. Convoluted, yes, but AFAIK I need to use a stacked
column chart to get floating bars with one series as markers.

At the moment it gives me fairly thick lines for the bars by setting
..gapwidth to 500%. Is there a better way?

Thanks!
Patrick

Hi,

Maybe this will help.
http://www.andypope.info/ngs/ng43.htm

You would need to add another series to the primary axis in order to get
your floating bars.

In excel the combination of bar chart and xy-scatter makes it much easier to
create.

Cheers
Andy

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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info
"SysMod" wrote in message
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I have three series that I am plotting against categories.
They are a base value and a delta, and a marker series.
By stacking them and hiding the base I get a floating bar showing the size
of the delta for each category. By showing the marker series as a
linechart
with markers only I get a symbol showing where this value fits in the
range.

Ideally I would like a bar chart, categories on the vertical axis, and
values from 0 to 100% on the horizontal axis, with very narrow bars -
thinner than what I can get with 500% gapwidth.

To get that I am plotting to give a floating column chart and pasting that
sideways to Powerpoint. Convoluted, yes, but AFAIK I need to use a stacked
column chart to get floating bars with one series as markers.

At the moment it gives me fairly thick lines for the bars by setting
.gapwidth to 500%. Is there a better way?

Thanks!
Patrick

Thanks, Andy, good to hear from you.

"Andy Pope" wrote:

Maybe this will help.
http://www.andypope.info/ngs/ng43.htm

As you say
"the bar gap width is set to the maximum, in order to get a smaller
thickness as possible "

which is what I am doing .. I want them even narrower.
My current effort is at
http://www.sysmod.com/horzcol.jpg

I wonder if I tried a high-low-close chart would that do, as long as I can
get categories on the vertical axis and the scale on the horizontal?

Thanks,

Patrick

Hi Patrick,

Sorry I was being slow making the connection, Patrick+SysMod.

How about Adding a custom Error bar to the series being used as the padding
bar.
Use a custom + value which is based on the values used for the bar. You can
then format that series to have no fill or border as well.
Only draw back is that I don't think MS graph will allow custom error bar
values.

If you still have problems drop me an email.

Cheers
Andy

--

Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info
"SysMod" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Andy, good to hear from you.

"Andy Pope" wrote:

Maybe this will help.
http://www.andypope.info/ngs/ng43.htm

As you say
"the bar gap width is set to the maximum, in order to get a smaller
thickness as possible "

which is what I am doing .. I want them even narrower.
My current effort is at
http://www.sysmod.com/horzcol.jpg

I wonder if I tried a high-low-close chart would that do, as long as I can
get categories on the vertical axis and the scale on the horizontal?

Thanks,

Patrick

This works better and in both excel and msgraph.

Apply Error bar to actual data series rather than the padding series.
Use Minus 100%. Format error bar to give skinniest line.

Cheers
Andy

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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info
"Andy Pope" wrote in message
...
Hi Patrick,

Sorry I was being slow making the connection, Patrick+SysMod.

How about Adding a custom Error bar to the series being used as the
padding bar.
Use a custom + value which is based on the values used for the bar. You
can then format that series to have no fill or border as well.
Only draw back is that I don't think MS graph will allow custom error bar
values.

If you still have problems drop me an email.

Cheers
Andy

--

Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info
"SysMod" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Andy, good to hear from you.

"Andy Pope" wrote:

Maybe this will help.
http://www.andypope.info/ngs/ng43.htm

As you say
"the bar gap width is set to the maximum, in order to get a smaller
thickness as possible "

which is what I am doing .. I want them even narrower.
My current effort is at
http://www.sysmod.com/horzcol.jpg

I wonder if I tried a high-low-close chart would that do, as long as I
can
get categories on the vertical axis and the scale on the horizontal?

Thanks,

Patrick

"Andy Pope" wrote:
Apply Error bar to actual data series rather than the padding series.
Use Minus 100%. Format error bar to give skinniest line.

Thanks, Andy, that may be the best.

In the meantime, I discovered (!) that one can have MORE than one series in
an XY chart, each with its own datalabels, lines, etc.
So by creating a start chart and then adding 13 series I got the effect I
wanted.

However, I now have another problem, which I will post separately -
..datalabel.left and .top are returning -1#.IND (ie NaN).

P.