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Horizontal bar chart with target lines

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    Horizontal bar chart with target lines

    I am trying to create a horizontal bar chart as follows:

    1) Primary vertical axis has expense category headings like salaries, rent, travel etc
    2) Primary horizontal axis has monetary units
    2) A horizontal bar showing actual expenditure for each expense category
    3) A vertical line showing the budget for each category


    I have been able to do this quite easily in a vertical bar chart equivalent of the same thing by creating a vertical bar chart with 2 series (actual and budget), changing the budget data series to a line, formatting the line as "no line" and then changing the marker type option to a horizontal line. However, when I try the same technique with a vertical bar chart when I get to the stage of changing the budget data series to a line, excel creates a secondary vertical axis and plots the budget against that rather than the primary horizontal axis.

    I have attached a pdf with a mock-up of what I am trying to achieve.

    Can anyone help please?

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    Re: Horizontal bar chart with target lines

    I am looking for the same solution. Did you solve it?

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    Re: Horizontal bar chart with target lines

    No, I have not found a solution to this issue.

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    Re: Horizontal bar chart with target lines

    You just need to use a combination chart. Bar and xy-scatter.
    The xy-scatter series can then have Y-error bars applied to draw vertical lines across bars.

    Here is something similiar I just did for another post.
    http://1drv.ms/1tfC1Ok
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