Dmitry_D_Onishchenko
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Hi, I have a very basic question about plotting data in Excel charts.
My data contains two columns representing date and quantity and a third column which contains categorical values (see sample data below). I need to create a simple column chart with date on x-axis and quantity on y-axis and columns' color defined by the corresponding category value. The two requirements are:
a) there should be no clustering, stacking or grouping of columns; just a 'group' role should be assigned to QTTY column to control the bar color (which I don't know how to implement);
b) user should have direct access to nominating a color to a category (i.e., once a new category appears in data, Excel should not re-assign all the colors but instead look for 1-1 correspondence between categories and colors OR select a new color for the new category while retaining old colors for old categories).
What chart type should I use?
Thanks in advance,
Dmitry
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Sample data:
My data contains two columns representing date and quantity and a third column which contains categorical values (see sample data below). I need to create a simple column chart with date on x-axis and quantity on y-axis and columns' color defined by the corresponding category value. The two requirements are:
a) there should be no clustering, stacking or grouping of columns; just a 'group' role should be assigned to QTTY column to control the bar color (which I don't know how to implement);
b) user should have direct access to nominating a color to a category (i.e., once a new category appears in data, Excel should not re-assign all the colors but instead look for 1-1 correspondence between categories and colors OR select a new color for the new category while retaining old colors for old categories).
What chart type should I use?
Thanks in advance,
Dmitry
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Sample data:
DT | CAT | QTTY |
---|---|---|
2019-05-28 | A | -100 |
2019-05-28 | B | 200 |
2019-05-29 | B | -50 |
2019-05-30 | C | 200 |
2019-05-30 | A | 100 |
2019-05-31 | A | -150 |