You can now further customize the chart (such as change the title, remove the grid lines, etc.)Īnother good use case of creating combination charts is when you have to show actual vs target values in the same chart. The above steps would give you the combination chart (also called combo chart) as shown below. Check the Secondary Axis checkbox for Profit Margin.In the drop-down, click on ‘Line with Markers’.Click on the drop-down for Profit Margin.In the Change Chart Type dialog box, make sure Combo category is selected (which it should be by default).Now to create a combination chart from this clustered column chart, follow the below steps: If you can’t see the Profit Margin bar in the chart, it’s because the value of Profit Margin is very less as compared to the Revenue value (but it’s there as we can see it’s listed in the legend in orange color). The above steps would give you a chart that has revenue and profit margin plotted as a clustered column chart. Select years that you want to plot in the chart (A2:A6 in this example).In the ‘Select Data Source’ dialog box, click on Edit option (below the ‘Horizontal (Category) Axis Labels’).With the Chart Selected, go to the Design tab and click on Select Data.This will insert the chart in the worksheet area. In the Charts group, click on the ‘Insert Column Chart’ icon.
Select the Revenue and Profit Margin data (B1:C6 in this example).To create this combination chart, I first need to create a regular chart where I have all the above data plotted on it.īelow are the steps to create a regular chart using the above data (the snapshots are of Excel 2016): Suppose I have the data set as shown below and I want to plot both the revenue and profit margin numbers in the same chart. Creating a Combination Chart in Excel 2013/2016 By adding a secondary Y-axis, we can plot the profit margin numbers separately (and still be able to plot both in the same chart). You can see that a revenue number are in thousands and are way higher than the profit margin numbers (which is in %). But with combination charts, you can have two Y-axis, which allows you to have two different type of data points in the same chart.įor example, you may be interested in plotting the annual revenue numbers of a company, and at the same time, also be able to show how the profit margin has changed.Ī combination chart (as shown below) is a good way of doing this in Excel. When you create a regular chart in Excel, it usually has only one X-axis and one Y-axis. Combination charts in Excel let you present and compare two different data-sets that are related to each other (in a single chart).
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