Friday Challenge – Close the Distance Between a Clustered Stacked column Chart
For this week’s challenge, we are going to modify a previous post for a user request.
If you are not familiar with it, you should...
Why is Excel Overlapping Columns When I Move them to the Secondary Axis?
Why is Excel Overlapping Columns in this chart? Why EXCEL, WHY are you doing this??? I don’t understand. Have you ever asked yourself this...
How-to Create Sales Quota Threshold Horizontal Lines in an Excel Column Chart
Sales executives are always pushing their sales teams. They typically do this by setting sales quota’s for their salespeople. Quotas are thresholds or minimum...
How-to Make an Excel Chart with 3 Different Column Widths (Bullet Chart Option 2)
In are recent post, I showed you how to create a Bullet Chart in Excel. Pete, then sent me another way to create a...
How-to Show Decades and Highlight a Year in the Horizontal Axis
Recently in an Excel Forum, a user had data similar to this format:
Here is what he wanted to do:
How do I set the Horizontal...
Stop Excel Overlapping Columns on Second Axis for 3 Series
We have learned how to Stop Excel Overlapping Columns in a few posts on the site. A reader had a follow-up question that I...
Add Multiple Percentages Above Column Chart or Stacked Column Chart
I recently posted a tutorial on how you can put a percentage at the top of a Stacked Column Chart. You can see the...
Stopping Excel Pivot Chart Columns from Overlapping When Moving Data Series to the Second...
A fan of the blog asked a question about this post:
Stop Excel From Overlapping the Columns When Moving a Data Series to the Second...
A Taxing Situation…
In order to prevent vehicle population from growing too fast and also to ease traffic, Shanghai China has begun to auction off license plates. ...
A Better Format For Excel Chart Secondary Axis Columns Overlap with 3 Series
Learn a better charting format when your Excel Chart Secondary Axis Columns Overlap with 3 data series.
The Problem
I didn’t love the last chart we...












