Series overlap

When analyzing sales, we will often come across data series that would be convenient to display using a Stacked Column or Stacked Bar chart, but due to their nature this is not a good solution. For example, if we have a production cost and a sales price, we need to calculate the price difference in order to show the production price and the price difference as two complementary series on the chart; their sum is, it is easy to see, the sales price. Can we create such chart without additional calculation?

SEQUENCE function

The SEQUENCE is another function that manipulates dynamic arrays. It allows generation of an array of numbers within a vector or matrix, depending on the given parameters, and it is possible to set the initial value as well as the step value by which the series is being incremented. So, it’s something like when you use the Fill Series option, except that you can now do it with the function.

Arranging secondary axis

In one of the earlier texts there were words on how to take advantage of the secondary axes to display disproportionate data series. The common problem here is the overlapping of the series. Therefore, the data is not sufficiently noticeable. By adjusting the width and gap between the series it can be slightly corrected. However, in order to make the data on the graph more noticeable, one can use a trick that will be described in the following text …

Custom Lists

Often we fill out tables with data that are meaningful strings. This can be for example the days of the week, the names of months, and so on. Therefore, it would be convenient to have automation using just enough to enter only the first member of the string, for example, “MONDAY”, and when applying a fill-in technique to Excel, automatically fill in the other several selected fields with the names of the remaining days of the week. This automatics are the Custom Lists and will be referred to in the following text.

Data series

When entering data into a table among them, there is often a meaningful connection, that is, they belong to a certain set of data. This is most commonly encountered when filling out the regular numbers in the table. Excel has fine mechanisms for automatically filling data sets that, apart from numbers, can also be used to fill dates, as well as to copy values ​​in a table. The following text will be about the series of data series.