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Business Solutions Charts and Graphs for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007
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Business Solutions Charts and Graphs for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007

by Bill Jelen
April 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
480 pages
17h 6m
English
Que
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Understanding the Shortcomings of Stacked Column Charts
Using a Stacked Column Chart to Compare Current Sales to Prior-Year Sales
The chart in Figure 3.38 uses a combination of a stacked column chart and a line chart.
The stacked column chart shows this year’s sales, broken out into same-store sales and
new-store sales. In this case, the same-store sales are plotted as the first series in white. The
new-store sales are the focus and are plotted in black.
The third series, which is plotted as a dotted line chart, shows the prior-year sales. While
the total height of the column is greater than last year’s sales, there is some underlying
problem in ...
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