Episodes 801 and 815 suggested many ways for getting the total of 3 series in a stacked column chart to appear above the column. Both Ute and John wrote in with yet another method, a method that is probably the easiest. Episode 845 will show you how.
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Transcript of the video:
Welcome back to the MrExcel netcast, I'm Bill Jelen.
Well, we're going to revisit Episodes 801 and 815.
I got two identical emails suggesting the same thing-- one from Ult Simon in Germany and another from John Nichols, and they both had a very clever way to solve this problem.
So, in 801, I proposed one method, and in 815 we had methods from Eddie and Ricardo.
Basically, the whole goal is to have a stacked column chart with the total for all three items in the stack appear above.
And so you can watch 801 and 815 or you can just use the method from this sheet.
What we're going to do is create a new stacked column chart, and we want to add Data Llabels there.
So on the Layout tab, we'll go to Data Labels and say Center.
Alright, now, what we're going to do is we're going to take that fourth series-- the total series, this series up here-- choose that by clicking on it and then change the chart type.
And so on the Design tab we'll do Change Chart Type; change it to a Line with no markers; click OK; now, while that's selected, we're going to Format that series, so Ctrl+1.
A couple things we want to do: First of all, in the line color we'll choose no line-- that should do it, we already have the markers turned off-- click Close; and then we want to Edit those Data Labels.
Now I'm going to go back to Layout, Data Labels, and choose Above-- basically because the Line series is different from the Column series, we're able to change the Data Labels for just that one series.
So now we have our numbers above; when I click outside, looks like everything is working perfectly.
Much easier method than what we had in Episodes 801 and 815.
So thanks to both Ult and John for sending in this great tip.
Well, thanks for stopping by we'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
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Well, we're going to revisit Episodes 801 and 815.
I got two identical emails suggesting the same thing-- one from Ult Simon in Germany and another from John Nichols, and they both had a very clever way to solve this problem.
So, in 801, I proposed one method, and in 815 we had methods from Eddie and Ricardo.
Basically, the whole goal is to have a stacked column chart with the total for all three items in the stack appear above.
And so you can watch 801 and 815 or you can just use the method from this sheet.
What we're going to do is create a new stacked column chart, and we want to add Data Llabels there.
So on the Layout tab, we'll go to Data Labels and say Center.
Alright, now, what we're going to do is we're going to take that fourth series-- the total series, this series up here-- choose that by clicking on it and then change the chart type.
And so on the Design tab we'll do Change Chart Type; change it to a Line with no markers; click OK; now, while that's selected, we're going to Format that series, so Ctrl+1.
A couple things we want to do: First of all, in the line color we'll choose no line-- that should do it, we already have the markers turned off-- click Close; and then we want to Edit those Data Labels.
Now I'm going to go back to Layout, Data Labels, and choose Above-- basically because the Line series is different from the Column series, we're able to change the Data Labels for just that one series.
So now we have our numbers above; when I click outside, looks like everything is working perfectly.
Much easier method than what we had in Episodes 801 and 815.
So thanks to both Ult and John for sending in this great tip.
Well, thanks for stopping by we'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
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