Comments on: Excel Charts With Horizontal Bands

By: Yevhen

Yevhen — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:38:08 +0000

Jon,
thank you for feedback.

I think about actions I have to do with the chart and it’s clear, more likely i’ve missed some step previously, i’ll try the actions once again.

Unfortunately, I am not the owner of this report, so I am not authorized to divide two axes in two charts :/

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:22:15 +0000

Yevhen -

You’ll have to figure out which set of axes you can put the bands on, and modify the protocol accordingly.

Is this a case where the data would be better in two charts (or in a panel chart) than on two axes? This is true of 99% of the dual axis charts you’ll ever encounter.

By: Yevhen

Yevhen — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:16:53 +0000

Jon,
thank you for a great tutorial.

I am interested if you could suggest how I can add horizontal bands in case my chart is already using both axis – primary & secondary. I tried but not successfuly.

Thanks in advance.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:18:43 +0000

I have set up a spreadsheet in which I can specify a date range within a long time series and the graph will automatically adjust horizontally and vertically to display the data. This means the vertical axis is set for automatic, so max and min values depend on the data range selected. When I add color bars per your method, I can’t see any way to sync the max and min of the display values of the color bars to those of the data. I can work around by always reformatting the color bar vertical axis whenever the data max/min changes, but that gets pretty tedious.

Any ideas on how to fix?

Thanks!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:46:05 +0000

Bill -

Not sure what you’re looking for. Formatting in the worksheet?

By: Bill Christian

Bill Christian — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:52:08 +0000

I am completely new to Excel and not very computer savy. I have made a list of my movies in alphabetical order in column A and the actors in column B. I want to add a horizontal line separating each movie and a vertical down the center separating A from B. The program has these lines but they do not print.
Can anyone help me?
Thank You and Merry Christmas to all.