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From: BlueWolverine on 1 Apr 2010 08:35
Hello,
MS EXCEL 2003 on XP PRO.

I have a stacked column chart and I want to throw cumulative data labels on
it. If I go into Chart Options and turn on the Data Labels, they are
incremental.

So if data for a single X axis category is 10 15 20, the labels show up as
10, 15, and 20. What I want is 10, 25, 45.

Right now I can manually set each label equal to a cell, but that's not a
flexible as I'd like because if the data changes, the bar lengths change and
the labels no longer move to where they should. Plus with a lot of
categories or intervals, this takes a long time.

Any suggestions? Thank you.
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BlueWolverine
MSE - Mech. Eng.
Go BLUE!
From: Luke M on 1 Apr 2010 08:52
Add a dummy line series, with values equal to your cumulative sums. Format
the line to have no markers, no line, but show values.

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Best Regards,

Luke M
"BlueWolverine" <BlueWolverine(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3809F296-BFD1-4EE0-AAE2-61CB72BDABEA(a)microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> MS EXCEL 2003 on XP PRO.
>
> I have a stacked column chart and I want to throw cumulative data labels
> on
> it. If I go into Chart Options and turn on the Data Labels, they are
> incremental.
>
> So if data for a single X axis category is 10 15 20, the labels show up as
> 10, 15, and 20. What I want is 10, 25, 45.
>
> Right now I can manually set each label equal to a cell, but that's not a
> flexible as I'd like because if the data changes, the bar lengths change
> and
> the labels no longer move to where they should. Plus with a lot of
> categories or intervals, this takes a long time.
>
> Any suggestions? Thank you.
> --
> BlueWolverine
> MSE - Mech. Eng.
> Go BLUE!


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