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Benchmark Chart in Excel 2013

Benchmark Charts or Budget Charts are a great way to show your actual sales versus your benchmark... read more

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Benchmark Charts or Budget Charts are a great way to show your actual sales versus your benchmark in a graphical way, highlighting the strong v weak months.

There are a few steps but in Excel 2013 it has been made much easier to create these charts with the new Combo charts.


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STEP 1: Enter your data into three columns, the month, the actual sales and the benchmark sales

STEP 2: Click inside your data and go to the ribbon and choose Insert > 2-D Clustered Column

STEP 3: Select the Benchmark series chart and Right Click and choose the Change Series Chart Type

Benchmark Chart in Excel 2013

STEP 4: This will automatically take you to the Combo chart box and you need to select the drop down for the Benchmark and select Line with Markers

Benchmark Chart in Excel 2013

STEP 5: Click on the line chart and press CTRL+1.  This will open up the Format Chart dialogue box

STEP 6: Select the Line option and choose No Line

See also  Pie Charts in Excel

Benchmark Chart in Excel 2013

STEP 7: Select the Marker Options and choose Built In, select the horizontal line type and increase the Size to 10.  You can also format the color of the line.

Benchmark Chart in Excel 2013

 

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