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Using Bar Charts to Illustrate Item Comparisons
If you think it is silly to have to sort your data into the reverse order from which you want
to present it in the chart, there is a setting buried deep in the ribbon that you can use to
correct this logic: you can choose Layout, Axes, Primary Vertical Axis, Show Right to Left
Axis in order to show the first row in your dataset at the top of the chart. Alternatively, you
can right-click the category labels, choose Format Axis, and choose the Categories in
Reverse Order check box (see Figure 4.3).
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Figure 4.2
You can sort the data by
ascending sales in order
to show the largest bars
at the top of the chart. ...