Comments on: Two Type Charting

By: Bharath Kumar

Bharath Kumar — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:55:00 +0000

How to plot mean scores along with the frequency distribution?

By: Vivek

Vivek — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:24:00 +0000

Thx Rob! was a gr8 help

By: Alex Song

Alex Song — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:54:00 +0000

great, this is really helpful to me. Will come back from time to time.
Thanks so much,

By: Andi

Andi — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:40:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I’ve been looking for something like this.

By: William

William — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:30:00 +0000

Has anyone tried to produce a composite bar graph along with a line graph. The composite bar graph showing the percentage make-up and the line graph showing data that is indirectly related to the composite data?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:53:00 +0000

These charts are great - good explanation Rob
I want to leave a warning about changing the automatic scales for the Y Axis. If this is a dynamic chart- that is the data can change and the graph needs to be flexible to allow that - then this can cause problems. If data points go off the scale the graph will not automatically resize to allow this.
On the other hand if ths data is fixed, fixing the scales avoids problems that can be had with graphs resizing due to screen size and font selection if the chart is embedded in a sheet.
Cheers

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:17:00 +0000

If you add the average formula in a column for each year on the end of each row of data then excel will plot your average as a straight line along with your data plot. Then include a column for Maximum and Minimum and you get a much more elegant presentation all on the line chart.
It makes it easy to see which months were above average below average and which were the lowest/highest.

By: Stacie

Stacie — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:14:00 +0000

Rob (and everyone, really)

Thanks for the help, information and general hand-holding. My humble gratitude cannot express how much it truly means.

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:14:00 +0000

Stacie,

You can find the chart as a downloadable workbook on my website: http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel as Two Type Charting.

By: Stacie

Stacie — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:01:00 +0000

Juan

Didn't think it could be that easy. I use Excel for logistic information and forget to think the way the finance guys do.

Rob

I tried this chart type, but my average columns are at the left side and are one on top of the other. My data is arranged a bit differently; could this be the problem or should I be looking some where else? Thanks for the help.