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    Line and Stacked Area Combo help

    Hi Everyone,

    I'm looking to create a report showing forecasts and looking to use a combination of a line and stacked area (similar to the the attached image Untitled.png

    The problem I have is that the stacked area plots to zero so doesn't look right. Can someone point me towards a tutorial on how to create this without the stacked area returning to zero?

    Hopefully I've explained it enough and I will be very grateful for any help received.

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    Re: Line and Stacked Area Combo help

    The problem I have is that the stacked area plots to zero so doesn't look right
    Without seeing the file, it is difficult to say what is going on here, but this suggests to me that the chart is interpreting something in the sheet as the value 0. Obviously, 0 will be treated as 0, but any text values will also be treated as 0. If I were debugging this chart, I would start by looking at what is in the spreadsheet and see what is in the spreadsheet that the chart is treating as 0.
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    Re: Line and Stacked Area Combo help

    Thanks for responding MrShorty, I am unable to upload a file at the moment but here is a sample of data and the chart it out puts is here Untitled.png

    Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14
    Group 1 5690557000 5592567000 5717779000 5616146000 5524311000 5878832000 5695341000 5655882000 5821058000 5776035000 5851726000 5798966000 5744254000 5680961000
    Group 2 5307592000 5351925000 5459816000 5371482000 5385791000 5284122000 5192143000 5103673000
    Group 3 109489000 112431000 133620000 149641000 172346000 190437000 204221000 213534000
    Group 4 65134000 66884000 79489000 89020000 102527000 113289000 121489000 127029000
    Group 5 52037000 53436000 63507000 71121000 81912000 90510000 97062000 101488000
    Group 6 46727000 47983000 57026000 63863000 73553000 81274000 87156000 91131000
    Group 7 45227000 46442000 55195000 61813000 71191000 78664000 84358000 88205000
    Group 8 46727000 47983000 57026000 63863000 73553000 81274000 87156000 91131000
    Group 9 52037000 53436000 63507000 71121000 81912000 90510000 97062000 101488000
    Group 10 65134000 66884000 79489000 89020000 102527000 113289000 121489000 127029000
    Group 11 109489000 112431000 133620000 149641000 172346000 190437000 204221000 213534000

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    Re: Line and Stacked Area Combo help

    Obviously it is difficult to debug from a picture. What is the chart using for the horizontal category axis data? It is showing odd numbers from 1 to 35, but I don't see any of those numbers down in the data table. I also cannot tell if these are the only categories (for a total of 18 categories) or if the chart is only displaying every other category for a total of 36 categories. I see 14 entries for the group 1 data, but only 8 entries for each of groups 2 through 11.

    Because there are more categories than entries for each group, I expect there must be "blank" cells scattered throughout the data. Is my expectation correct? If so, are these blank cells actually blank?
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