I'm trying to graph the components of a year-over-year variance (example,
fuel, new store growth, realigment of stores, etc.), along with the total
variance, but one of the components is negative. If I just take the
individual variances and graph in a bar chart, the size of the bar chart is
greater than the total because it's not factoring in the negative component.
How can I do this?

Hello

Did you mean something like this?

http://www.andypope.info/charts/Invertneg.htm


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"nellis" wrote:

> I'm trying to graph the components of a year-over-year variance (example,
> fuel, new store growth, realigment of stores, etc.), along with the total
> variance, but one of the components is negative. If I just take the
> individual variances and graph in a bar chart, the size of the bar chart is
> greater than the total because it's not factoring in the negative component.
> How can I do this?

Instead of a stacked bar chart, try a waterfall chart:

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

- Jon
-------
Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"nellis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:86A3E2FD-758D-4195-8DD9-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm trying to graph the components of a year-over-year variance (example,
> fuel, new store growth, realigment of stores, etc.), along with the total
> variance, but one of the components is negative. If I just take the
> individual variances and graph in a bar chart, the size of the bar chart
> is
> greater than the total because it's not factoring in the negative
> component.
> How can I do this?

Thanks for the response, Jon. I did think of a waterfall chart, however I
have 7 ship points that I want to show variances for and was hoping to do
this in one chart - each bar would be a ship point and broken down by
variance components.

"Jon Peltier" wrote:

> Instead of a stacked bar chart, try a waterfall chart:
>
> http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/Waterfall.html
>
> - Jon
> -------
> Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
> Tutorials and Custom Solutions
> Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
> _______
>
>
> "nellis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:86A3E2FD-758D-4195-8DD9-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I'm trying to graph the components of a year-over-year variance (example,
> > fuel, new store growth, realigment of stores, etc.), along with the total
> > variance, but one of the components is negative. If I just take the
> > individual variances and graph in a bar chart, the size of the bar chart
> > is
> > greater than the total because it's not factoring in the negative
> > component.
> > How can I do this?
>
>
>

A stacked chart isn't exactly what you want. You could set it up so there
are two stacks per item, one positive and one negative. This would work
fine, but it would take some rearranging of the data.

- Jon
-------
Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
_______


"nellis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:85C28220-1429-4239-A19D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks for the response, Jon. I did think of a waterfall chart, however I
> have 7 ship points that I want to show variances for and was hoping to do
> this in one chart - each bar would be a ship point and broken down by
> variance components.
>
> "Jon Peltier" wrote:
>
>> Instead of a stacked bar chart, try a waterfall chart:
>>
>> http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/Waterfall.html
>>
>> - Jon
>> -------
>> Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
>> Tutorials and Custom Solutions
>> Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
>> _______
>>
>>
>> "nellis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:86A3E2FD-758D-4195-8DD9-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > I'm trying to graph the components of a year-over-year variance
>> > (example,
>> > fuel, new store growth, realigment of stores, etc.), along with the
>> > total
>> > variance, but one of the components is negative. If I just take the
>> > individual variances and graph in a bar chart, the size of the bar
>> > chart
>> > is
>> > greater than the total because it's not factoring in the negative
>> > component.
>> > How can I do this?
>>
>>
>>