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Learn how to add vertical values to an Excel chart.

How do I add vertical values to an Excel chart. We will be answering questions to how do I add vertical data to an Excel chart, and an interactive vertical column to an Excel line chart. Also, which chart type displays the data vertically, and how to add a vertical line in an Excel chart?

Here are the steps outlined in the video.

Enable Developer Tab
1) Right-click anywhere in the ribbon
2) Customized the Ribbon...
3) Check on Developer
4) OK

Insert Spin Button
1) Developer ~ Insert ~ Form Controls
2) Spin button
3) Right-click on spin button, Format Control...
4) Minimum value = 1
Maximum value = 12
Cell link = $D$1
5) OK

Selecting Sales Using Spin Button
1) Select cell D2
2) =IF(A2=$D$1,C2,NA())
3) Apply to rest of the rows

Draw Chart
1) Select Months and Sales column (exclude header)
2) Insert ~ Charts ~ 2D Line Chart
3) Right-click on chart, Select Data...
4) Add
5) Series values = ='213'!$D$2:$D$13
6) OK
7) OK
8) Select chart
9) Chart Design ~ Type ~ Change Chart Type
10) Combo
11) Series 1 = Line
Series 2 = X Y Scatter
12) OK
13) Select orange dot on chart
Chart Elements ~ Error Bars ~ Percentage
14) Right-click on orange dot on chart.
Format Data Series...
15) Series Options select "Series 2 Y Error Bars"
16) Percentage = 100
Direction = Minus
17) Select orange dot on chart
Chart Elements ~ Data Labels ~ Above

🔗🔗 LINKS TO SIMILIAR VIDEOS 🔗🔗
How do I add vertical values to an Excel chart? - PART 1 - Excel Tips and Tricks
https://youtube.com/shorts/XIsuIFHs2h8?feature=share

How do I add vertical values to an Excel chart? - PART 2 - Excel Tips and Tricks
https://youtube.com/shorts/JOl6GrRCI5o?feature=share

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Transcript
00:00Let's go at this kind of chart where you can have this vertical line indicating
00:03what the value is in each of this line chart. Let's start off by inserting a
00:07spinner button here. Go to developer tab. If this developer tab is not here, I'll
00:11leave the description on how you can get it done. Then after that go to controls,
00:15insert, under form control, you're gonna click on this spinner button here and
00:19place the spinner button anywhere on your spreadsheet here. Right click and
00:22then go format control. In here you're gonna say minimum value of 1, maximum
00:27value of 12 and for the link cell, we're gonna put D1 as your link cell here and
00:31then after that click on that button and click OK. Next we're gonna associate a
00:34formula. You're gonna say if open parenthesis this one is equal to your D1
00:40and press F4 to make it fixed reference. We're gonna basically display the sales
00:44value and then after that if it's not equal, we're just gonna display as NA and
00:49after that apply the same formula to the rest of the rows like this. Next we'll
00:52insert a line chart. You're gonna select the month and the sales like this. Go
00:56insert, chart, line chart. You're just gonna draw the line chart and reposition
01:00them like this. Next we're gonna right click on this chart here and gonna do
01:03select data and in here we're gonna go add this guy here and we're gonna select
01:07the new column that we added. Press enter and OK and OK. Next make sure you're
01:10selected to the chart here and now you go to chart design, chart type, a pop-up
01:14window will appear. Over here click on combo. This one we're gonna change to line
01:18and this one we're gonna change to scattered Y like that and you should see a
01:22red dot here. Select this, go to this plus sign here, go to area bars and after
01:26that click on percentage. Now you're gonna click on this thing again, right
01:30click and then go format data series. In here you're gonna change this series
01:33options to series 2. You're gonna change this to 100%, hit enter and you're gonna
01:38do minus like this and you should see a line like that. And the last thing to do
01:41is just select this again and just add a data label here like this above and
01:45you're done.
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