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How do you combine a stacked column chart with a clustered column chart?

Through careful arrangement of the data in your worksheet, you can make a stacked column chart that looks like a clustered-stacked column chart. This can also be done to make clustered-stacked bar charts. The following links show how it is done:

There is a tutorial showing this technique on Bernard Liengme's site:
  www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme/ExcelTips/Columns.htm.

Bernard's tutorial is based on the example on Stephen Bullen's web site:
  oaltd.co.uk/Excel/SBXLPage.asp#Charting, download FunChrt4.xls.

Andy Pope shows a similar approach here:
  andypope.info/charts/stackside.htm

The following MSKB article also has an example:
  XL2000: Creating Charts with Multiple Groups of Stacked Bars.