Comments on: Fill Between XY Chart Series (XY-Area Combo Chart)

By: Erik Jan

Erik Jan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:14:49 +0000

I’m trying Combo-XY-Area.xlsx (too lazy to try it myself so I thought I’d take the example and tweak it so it takes my data). So far, so good.
Using Excel2010, I see that if I size the chart vertically, all continues to fit and work fine. If I size it horizontally, it starts OK but after the chart becomes about twice as wide the fills (shapes) don’t ‘fit’ anymore… Is that ‘logical’ given your approach and what can I do about this?

By: Melody

Melody — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:50:10 +0000

Oh, and I did not have to do the date axis or the secondary axis… but it works.

By: Melody

Melody — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:49:08 +0000

Update- don’t know what I did differently, but it works wonderfully now!! Great, thanks so much!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:18:27 +0000

Chris -

You don’t describe the problem you had, so I can only guess. “Does not work” is rather broad.

If you have a line chart with a date scale axis, then you don’t need to go through the whole conversion of a secondary X axis. The area data can be plotted on the primary axis with the line chart data.

If you are using an XY chart with dates as the X axis, you could either convert it to a line chart, then see my first paragraph. Otherwise it’s the same protocol as in the article above. You may have to take special care with the dates and with the secondary X values.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:34:57 +0000

Hi,

This looks good, but it does not work unless you use basic numbers and who ever works with basic numbers!!

What if you have the X Axis as a date…then your method does not work!

So essentially I found this useless.

By: Melody

Melody — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:13:14 +0000

I tried using this technique with a graph containing 9 lines, it did not seem to work as well – and some of the differences were negative numbers. I did insert negative numbers into your worksheet and it did not work there either. Do the resulting numbers have to be positive for this to work or is there something I should be doing differently to make this work?

Thank you!