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I am looking to create a sales chart. The problem I'm running into is this;
instead of side by side columns that show actual sales vs. sales goal, I want
to have a line on the Y axis that markes the sales goal. Better yet, it
would be great if the marker could be on the chart itself so when sales
exceeds the goal, the column would grow beyond the line set for the sales
goal. Any ideas? Again, I'm on Excel 2002
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Hi

You can either enter the sales goal as a separate series of data - and chart
it as a line on the bar chart, or you could check Jon's site he
http://www.peltiertech.com/Excel/Cha...s.html#AddLine
which might help you.

Andy.

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I am looking to create a sales chart. The problem I'm running into is
this;
instead of side by side columns that show actual sales vs. sales goal, I
want
to have a line on the Y axis that markes the sales goal. Better yet, it
would be great if the marker could be on the chart itself so when sales
exceeds the goal, the column would grow beyond the line set for the sales
goal. Any ideas? Again, I'm on Excel 2002



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I found a way I can overlap one column with the other. The problem is at the
begining of the month sales is completely hidden by goals and vis versa at
the end of the month if I switch them around. When I try to set the
transparency on the columns, it's greyed out.

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I am looking to create a sales chart. The problem I'm running into is this;
instead of side by side columns that show actual sales vs. sales goal, I want
to have a line on the Y axis that markes the sales goal. Better yet, it
would be great if the marker could be on the chart itself so when sales
exceeds the goal, the column would grow beyond the line set for the sales
goal. Any ideas? Again, I'm on Excel 2002

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WOW! Very kewl. A little complicated but I think I can do it. Thanks!

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Hi

You can either enter the sales goal as a separate series of data - and chart
it as a line on the bar chart, or you could check Jon's site he
http://www.peltiertech.com/Excel/Cha...s.html#AddLine
which might help you.

Andy.

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I am looking to create a sales chart. The problem I'm running into is
this;
instead of side by side columns that show actual sales vs. sales goal, I
want
to have a line on the Y axis that markes the sales goal. Better yet, it
would be great if the marker could be on the chart itself so when sales
exceeds the goal, the column would grow beyond the line set for the sales
goal. Any ideas? Again, I'm on Excel 2002




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