[TIP 110] - Create Uncommon Chart Designs

Did you know that you can create some uncommon chart designs using two often overlooked properties in the Bar Chart? These properties are under the series --> layout and are called Customer side-by-side and Series overlap , and can be used to change the standard positions of the bars being drawn.

Here is an example where the blue bars are overlapping. A third series is transparent, only showing a marker to give the effect of a progress indicator with the orange line, and a fourth is positioned by only showing a border to give the white line’s banding effect.

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Here are the properties:

In the chart above, the bars are drawn on top of one another, because we have changed these properties. Try these properties in conjunction with series markers, point charts and lines whenever you have a chart type that you’re just not sure how to replicate.