(You can have as many clusters as you wish, we will work with just two for clarity).
Here’s how to get a stacked and clustered column bar chart done in excel (tested on Excel 2011 for Mac): In order to get a clustered and stacked bar chart, one could create two stacked column charts referring to their respective datasets and then just superimpose them on top of each other. This called for an outside the box solution:) I think it is a good workaround overall given you can’t build a clustered stacked chart in excel. Kudos to Bill for making the Impossible probable, but the workaround is arduous, the resulting data table is out of whack and the legend is confusing as hell.
It looks ugly and confuses the hell out of anybody looking at such a chart.īill Jelen from MrExcel attempted to address this limitation in his podcast. If you are a super advanced excel guru, you can get another set of series show on a secondary axis, but that’s pretty much it. With excel you can have either clustered column bar charts, or stacked column bar charts, but not both. What you see is a clustered and stacked column bar chart. If you have ever tried to build a chart like this in excel, you are out of luck.Įxcel just does not do it.
