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Old May 12th, 2010, 04:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Dave
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Default Bar and Line plots on the same chart

Is there a way to have some data plotted as bars and other data as lines on
the same chart?

Appreciate any suggestiuions.

Dave
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Old May 12th, 2010, 04:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Andy Pope
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Default Bar and Line plots on the same chart

Hi,

Yes, you need to plot the line as an xy-scatter in order to get the line
to go vertically. with Y values being used to align the points with the
bars.

Cheers
Andy

On 12/05/2010 16:05, Dave wrote:
Is there a way to have some data plotted as bars and other data as lines on
the same chart?

Appreciate any suggestiuions.

Dave
WinXP SP3 Office (Excel)2003



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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info

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Old May 14th, 2010, 12:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Dave
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Default Bar and Line plots on the same chart

Thank you Andy - it works :-)
Dave

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Hi,

Yes, you need to plot the line as an xy-scatter in order to get the line
to go vertically. with Y values being used to align the points with the
bars.

Cheers
Andy

On 12/05/2010 16:05, Dave wrote:
Is there a way to have some data plotted as bars and other data as lines
on
the same chart?

Appreciate any suggestiuions.

Dave
WinXP SP3 Office (Excel)2003



--

Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info



 




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