![]() This approach is pretty flexible, and allows individual floating bars to be formatted differently, but will require some calculations to get the bars to appear as desired. Stacked column and bar charts are probably the most obvious way to create floating bar charts. I’ve divided the techniques into the following: There are so many ways that I should write more than one post, but I’m going to cram them all into this one. There are numerous ways to create floating bars in an Excel chart. ![]() ![]() Floating bars can be useful to show running highs and lows in a data set, such as daily high and low temperatures, stock prices, diastolic and systolic blood pressure readings, etc. In a Gantt chart, horizontal floating bars along a horizontal date scale help program managers plan task start and end dates and durations, and track progress towards completion of these tasks. (“Bars” in this usage means “bars”, as Excel calls horizontally oriented bars, as well as “columns”, as Excel calls vertically oriented bars.) In a waterfall chart, floating bars (usually vertical) show how contributing factors affect a cumulative total. Floating bars can be used to plot many types of data sets.
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