That’s how I handle my small utilities. User selects the data, which is rearranged on another worksheet, or in some cases on the same sheet, off to the side, then this rearranged data is put into an appropriate chart. Some tools hide the data construction worksheets, and I guess if you make a lot of these charts that makes sense, but personally I like to be able to easily access my data.

Too slick. There is thinking outside the box, but this is too much.
Can’t wait to try this. Great tutorial.

Cheers,

Bob

Ha! I caused your error.

Those percentages were calculated from the original data set, before I removed Segment D to demonstrate with an asymmetric data set. I have corrected the calculations and the charts.

I ended up with different percent scales for the Primary Percentage and Secondary Percentage axes. The two figures shown are taken before the final resizing step, however, the issue was also present in the final resizing step.

In the first slide, I’ve highlighted in green some dollar values in the dollar input table, as well as selected values in red in an percent table calculated from the dollar input table. The dollar values were in good agreement with the scale on the primary axis, the percent values were not in good agreement with the scale on the secondary axis:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/YLvqpHnrtfbFFREItl3VSA?authkey=Gv1sRgCPjoh92A64L_eg&feat=directlink

In the second slide, the Secondary Percentage value at 50% is no longer equal to $3.0M, but $2.7M (more precisely, half of the $5,312,434 total dollar value). This same calculation was carried out for the rest of the entries in the Primary Percentage Scale and Secondary Percentage Scale tables:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ucbR_wOfvVklOszTDFAD4A?authkey=Gv1sRgCPjoh92A64L_eg&feat=directlink

I’m not sure what caused my error, the secondary Y Axis has a maximum of positive 3 million and a minimum of negative 3 million.