Same methodology up through where the totals are added. Instead of converting to a line chart:

1. Open the formatting for that series, change it to Secondary Axis. Now it’s sitting in front of the stacked bars I really want to see.

2. Add data labels to that series. (They go in the right spot at the top of the bar).

3. Format the area pattern as None and the border as None.

The bar disappears, leaving the data labels and the underlying stacked bars or columns.

This is another one of the things that Harvard Graphics for DOS used to do automatically! Silly that you have to trick the program to add these.

I’ts possible to get this effect in a stacked bar chart, but it’s not as easy. You can’t use a line chart series for the labels. You could use an XY series, and you’d have to mess around with the primary and secondary axis scales (see Bar-Line Combination Chart). Or you could add another bar series onto the stack, with values of zero and custom labels. Good topic for a follow up.