Sales charts

[brodiemac]

I am looking to create a sales chart. The problem I'm running into is this;
instead of side by side columns that show actual sales vs. sales goal, I want
to have a line on the Y axis that markes the sales goal. Better yet, it
would be great if the marker could be on the chart itself so when sales
exceeds the goal, the column would grow beyond the line set for the sales
goal. Any ideas? Again, I'm on Excel 2002

Hi

You can either enter the sales goal as a separate series of data - and chart
it as a line on the bar chart, or you could check Jon's site here:
http://www.peltiertech.com/Excel/Cha...s.html#AddLine
which might help you.

Andy.

"brodiemac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I am looking to create a sales chart. The problem I'm running into is
>this;
> instead of side by side columns that show actual sales vs. sales goal, I
> want
> to have a line on the Y axis that markes the sales goal. Better yet, it
> would be great if the marker could be on the chart itself so when sales
> exceeds the goal, the column would grow beyond the line set for the sales
> goal. Any ideas? Again, I'm on Excel 2002

[brodiemac]

I found a way I can overlap one column with the other. The problem is at the
begining of the month sales is completely hidden by goals and vis versa at
the end of the month if I switch them around. When I try to set the
transparency on the columns, it's greyed out.

"brodiemac" wrote:

> I am looking to create a sales chart. The problem I'm running into is this;
> instead of side by side columns that show actual sales vs. sales goal, I want
> to have a line on the Y axis that markes the sales goal. Better yet, it
> would be great if the marker could be on the chart itself so when sales
> exceeds the goal, the column would grow beyond the line set for the sales
> goal. Any ideas? Again, I'm on Excel 2002

[brodiemac]

WOW! Very kewl. A little complicated but I think I can do it. Thanks!

"Andy" wrote:

> Hi
>
> You can either enter the sales goal as a separate series of data - and chart
> it as a line on the bar chart, or you could check Jon's site here:
> http://www.peltiertech.com/Excel/Cha...s.html#AddLine
> which might help you.
>
> Andy.
>
> "brodiemac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >I am looking to create a sales chart. The problem I'm running into is
> >this;
> > instead of side by side columns that show actual sales vs. sales goal, I
> > want
> > to have a line on the Y axis that markes the sales goal. Better yet, it
> > would be great if the marker could be on the chart itself so when sales
> > exceeds the goal, the column would grow beyond the line set for the sales
> > goal. Any ideas? Again, I'm on Excel 2002
>
>
>