Comments on: Clustered-Stacked-Column Combo Chart With Lines

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:25:18 +0000

Looks like another entry for “You Asked For It”. Stay tuned.

By: Choco

Choco — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:43:12 +0000

Jon,
Thank you so much for this great material – will be using this over and over. One question: Is there a way one could add totals to all the stacked/clusteres columns? That would really help. I hope this is not too dumb of a question….

By: Hannah

Hannah — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:34:46 +0000

Brilliant, this was easy to follow and worked beautifully. Thanks so much! You saved me a lot of time and trouble.

By: MMS

MMS — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:42:19 +0000

You saved my life twice . Had to create clustered stacked charts for my management and then after 4 months needed to add a line to it . Thank you so much !!!
Great job!!!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:24:09 +0000

When the series is added, it is added as another stacked column on top of the others. You can’t make it a line type series until after it is created as a stacked column.

By: Yuki

Yuki — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:25:05 +0000

I can create 2 stacked column as mentioned by above. But I tried many ways, just couldn’t add a line graph to create 2 stacked column + 1 line. How to do it?

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:28:56 +0000

John - The line series would use the same X values as the columns, not as the overall clusters. The line data must be staggered to match the column data, so the markers line up with the columns. Start with this data:

Start by creating a line chart, and use the option to interpolate over blank cells (otherwise there will be no lines connecting the markers).

Change A, B1, B2, and B3 to stacked column type series.

Move the line series to the secondary axis, and apply various formatting as in the chart above. Note: another XY series is used to provide the month labels along the bottom of the chart.

Here is an alternative arrangement for the chart:

By: John

John — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:48:57 +0000

Is there a way for *each* stack to have its own set of lines? Moreover, let’s say each stack has respective high and low data. Typically, I would do 2 lines series per stack (remove the line and add high-low bars), but I’m having a bit of difficulty doing it for clustered stacks. Any suggestions?

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:39:05 +0000

I'm not sure how you're changing the links. The easiest way to handle this is to make an exact copy of the chart and its worksheet, and then replace the old data with the new data. This avoids the need to actually change any links. This and related approaches are discussed in Make a Copied Chart Link to New Data.

By: Enekhai Henry

Enekhai Henry — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:54:38 +0000

I followed your instruction and was successful at creating a clustered colum chart with line series.

I intend to use this chart as a template for other charts. What I did was to copy the chart and change the source data to a different one (which has been previously arranged as instructed). But each time I did this, I found out it became necessary to use two vertical axis. Trying to correct this created problems of all sorts. Been trying to do this for sometime now.

Will appreciate your help.