Chart secondary axis order to back?

[Pati]

Working with a bar chart, I would like to have the bars for the secondary
axis appear behind those on the primary axis? Any suggestions?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Create the chart in Excel the way you would like it to appear then copy and
paste special into PowerPoint as an image.


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[Pati]

That is the problem. I don't know how to make the secondary axis bar appear
behind the primary axis bars in Excel.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hi Pati,

This has been bugging me, because I knew I did this a while back. Your
comments made me (don't worry, my compulsive nature, not your fault) dig
back thru a few hundred presentations to find where I did it. I haven't
found the actual slide, but it may have been lost in any of several computer
crashes I have had. I found a couple similar ones.

I think I owe you an apology. I believe, for the slide I was remembering, I
faked it. I probably created the bar graphs separately in Excel, then
imported the graphs into PowerPoint (paste special), broke them apart, and
moved the elements together to appear the way I wanted. This is time
consuming, tedious, and does not automatically update.

I may also have used Crystal Graphics Chart (for PowerPoint 2000) to create
the graph in PowerPoint. Since I seem to remember it could do this.


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Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
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