Chart with stacked bars and lines


Posted by Brian on November 16, 2000 2:12 PM

I'm looking for a way to create a chart with most of
the ranges consisting of stacked bars and another range
which is a line. I can easily get a regular bar with
a line, but not a stacked bar.

Posted by Ben O. on November 16, 2000 2:49 PM

When you orginally create the chart, include the series that will eventually be a line as a regular series in the stacked bar chart. Once the chart is created, right-click on the series that will be the line, select Chart Type, and then select line chart.

You might want to use a Stacked Column chart instead of a Stacked Bar chart though, since a column chart and a line chart can use the same axis labels, whereas added a line to a Stacked bar chart creates additional axis labels on the right and top of the chart, and the line won't go the same way as the bars.

-Ben



Posted by Brad O. on April 10, 2005 2:31 PM

For this to work, the checkbox for "Apply to Selection" (under options) has to be checked. It took me a while to figure this out because it is not in an obvious place.