When you add the secondary series data, check Categories in First Column, but do not check Replace Existing Categories.

Since it’s already mixed up, select the primary axis series, and change the category labels from the B through K labels to the month labels you should have started with.

Hope you can help. I followed your steps above however I am having trouble with labeling a secondary X-Axis with Months rather than B through K headings as you have used in your example. Right now I have a chart that has both Primary and Secondary X-Axis labeled B through K. I can send in my spreadsheet for your review.

Your help is much appreciated.
Gary

I was concerned about confusing readers if both the totals 1 and 2 are plotted along with the constituents a and b in the same chart.

I’m going to start a new series for questions like this: “You Asked For It”, after I check whether this title infringes on anyone’s prior art.

Thanks for your reply, i thought my question might be a bit ambiguous.

Yes i have data for 1 and 2, and 1a and 1b and 2a and 2b. 1a, 1b, 2a and 2b are essentially sub-sets of 1 and 2 showing, for example, regional details of national stats (represented by 1 and 2). So what i would like is for 1 and 2 to be plotted as columns from the bottom of a chart projecting upwards.

Then i would like clusters of ‘1a and 1b’ and ‘2a and 2b’ plotted from the top of the chart projecting downwards (essentially Values in reverse order) above the positions of 1 and 2 respectively.

It’s probably a question of how to arrange the data, but at the moment i can’t quite see how to do it. I have got close, but was not happy with the result.

Thanks for your continued help.

Janez