Alignment of secondary X Axis

**Huddle** · 02-23-2011, 10:34 AM

In a post between Ppataki & Andy Pope in March of 09 there was a solution to this same problem but it was for a pivot chart.

Ppataki stated to remove the data table and do the aligment. I wasn't sure as to how to do this and if it could be done on a regular chart.

I am wanting to be able to group the secondary axis as in the attached example. Please let me know how this could be done for a regular chart.

**Andy Pope** · 02-23-2011, 10:38 AM

A link to the original post may have helped.

Can you post example file rather than word doc

**Huddle** · 02-23-2011, 10:58 AM

I didn't know how to link the previous post. I've attached the excel example.

**Andy Pope** · 02-23-2011, 11:13 AM

To post a link you could just have copied the url from the address bar.

Your problem has nothing to do with secondary x axis. You are not using a secondary axis.

You have a problem with multi level category labels.
In order to get grouping on the outer levels you need to has a single text item for each unique label. Where as currently you have a label for every category so the text appears for each category.

I have added 2 extra columns to your data table to provide the text for the axis.