Chart with colored background

[Guest]

I am trying to make a control chart (of sorts) following the procedures shown
here:

http://www.peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/ColoredQuadrantBackground.html

I have RED, YELLOW, GREEN, YELLOW and RED bars and I've gotten them to show
in the background. The data for the stacked bars is listed like this on the
sheet:

RED YELLOW GREEN YELLOW RED <~~label for me
0.8 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 <~~data

I also have data that is shown like this:

Aug-04 Sep-04 Oct-04 Nov-04 Dec-04 Jan-05 Feb-05
1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.07 1.07 1.07

that I want to overlay on the RED/YELLOW/GREEN sections. I can't seem to
figure out how to add it to the chart. I'd like to do it with a LINE chart
if possible.

Thanks in advance,
Barb Reinhardt

 

[Andy Pope]

Hi Barb,

Start by creating a line chart with your dates and data.
To that add 5 extra data series. Set each of these to you
red/yell/green/yell/red values. Change the 5 data series to the
secondary axis and stacked column chart. Use chart options to enable the
secondary x axis. Adjust the column gap width to zero.

Cheers
Andy

 

[Guest]

I got a chart, but the dates were on the secondary axis and I needed them on
the primary axis. I'll try what you suggest. I functionally did what you
suggested, but didn't change to the secondary axis first. I'll try this.
Thanks.

Barb Reinhardt