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Old November 3rd, 2008, 11:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Gerry
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Default Help needed with multi y-axis chart

All,

I have created a combination chart which use bars to show company
financials and a line to show unit sales. During the early part of the
company's history, certain financial values are less than zero, thus
the minimum value for the primary y-axis scale is less than zero.

The problem is this - Excel aligns the minimum values of both y-axis
scales, thus zero units is aligned with negative dollars. This is
confusing to the viewer.

My question is this: Other than manually tweaking the scale for the
number of units sold, is there an automatic means for having zero be
aligned on both scales?

Thank you.
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Old November 4th, 2008, 02:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Jon Peltier
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Default Help needed with multi y-axis chart

You can manually tweak it, or programmatically tweak it:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/AlignXon2Ys.html

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All,

I have created a combination chart which use bars to show company
financials and a line to show unit sales. During the early part of the
company's history, certain financial values are less than zero, thus
the minimum value for the primary y-axis scale is less than zero.

The problem is this - Excel aligns the minimum values of both y-axis
scales, thus zero units is aligned with negative dollars. This is
confusing to the viewer.

My question is this: Other than manually tweaking the scale for the
number of units sold, is there an automatic means for having zero be
aligned on both scales?

Thank you.



 




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