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Changing Y Axis to Non-numerical value for Stacked Column Chart

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    Changing Y Axis to Non-numerical value for Stacked Column Chart

    Hello All,

    I'm having a problem. I have a stacked bar chart that has my company's web traffic for the Month of January 2013. I have the following data.

    Campaigns
    Organic - 7978
    Referral - 5129
    Direct - 2883
    CPC - 2883
    Email - 893

    I need to know how to change the Y axis from the numerical numbers to the Titles of the campaign. I've tried using the XY Chart Labels Add-In but I'm not sure I'm using it right. I need this information like yesterday. Please help. I've attached the chart below. It's a simple chart as I've only got January's information. Thanks!
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    Re: Changing Y Axis to Non-numerical value for Stacked Column Chart

    Not sure what you mean by changing the y axis ... maybe try tried this:

    click the layout tab in the chart tools, select data labels > more data label options, and click 'series name'

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    Re: Changing Y Axis to Non-numerical value for Stacked Column Chart

    Hi Nicky,

    What I mean is where the Y axis has the numerical numbers as the vertical value, I need that value to be the series names (Organic, CPC, Direct, etc.)

    I did try your suggestion but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. If you have any other suggestions please let me know. Thanks for your reply!

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    Re: Changing Y Axis to Non-numerical value for Stacked Column Chart

    Hi
    The y axis has to be numeric to tell the chart how large each of the stacked bars must be.
    The best I can think of is to hide the numeric axis labels and add text boxes to indicate the series names

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    Re: Changing Y Axis to Non-numerical value for Stacked Column Chart

    Hmmm... that might actually do the trick. Sometimes the simplest tasks seem so hard! Hopefully that will work. Thanks NickyC!

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