How do I set up a line - bar graph bar first and line all others?

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I trying to use the line - bar graph so that the current year is a bar and
all other data sets are line, but the default for this chart type groups have
of them as bars and half as charts. How do I get around this?
 
jk9533 wrote on Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:42:02 -0700:

j> I trying to use the line - bar graph so that the current
j> year is a bar and all other data sets are line, but the
j> default for this chart type groups have of them as bars and
j> half as charts. How do I get around this?

I think I succeeded in doing it but I am prepared to be
corrected. Draw all the series as lines and change the chart
type of the one you want to bar.


James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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You mean you want two series, one using X vs Y, the other using X1 vs Y?
Create the chart using X vas Y, then copy the X1-Y data, select the chart,
and use Paste Special to add the data as a new series. Format each series
separately, and if necessary display the X1-Y series on the secondary axis
if X and X1 use incompatible axis scales. Sometimes when you move a series
to the secondary axis, Excel adds a secondary Y axis (which you can remove)
but not a primary X axis. You can add this using the controls on the Chart
Tools contextual tabs.

- Jon
 
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