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How to make a cumulative sum chart in Excel?
Charts allow you to communicate information visually, with greater impact than tables or raw data. They also happen to be one of the most powerful and easy-to-use features in Microsoft Excel for Mac. Excel 2013 does not have a predefined option for the Pareto graph, so we will be using the Combo chart type, which is the closest to what we need. This will require a few more steps because all the manipulations that Excel 2016 performs behind the scene, you will have to do manually.
If there is a list of data about monthly sale volumes in a year, and now you want to make a cumulative sum chart about it for others to view the cumulative sum of the sale volumes in every month clearly as following screenshot shown, how could you do? Here, I will introduce the way to make a cumulative sum chart in Excel.
Create an accumulative sum chart in Excel
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Create an accumulative sum chart in Excel
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1. Select a blank cell adjacent to the Sale column, in this case, select Cell C2, and type this formula =SUM(B$2:B2), and then drag the fill handle down to the cells you want to apply this formula. See screenshot:
2. Then, select the data range and click Insert > Column > Clustered Column, see screenshot:
![Bar Bar](/uploads/1/2/6/2/126259011/680527826.png)
3. In the inserted chart, click one total column and right click to select Change Series Chart Type… from the context menu. See screenshot:
4. In the Change Chart Type dialog, click Combo from the left pane, and then select Clustered Column-Line chart type in the right pane, see screenshot:
Note: If you are using Excel 2010 and earlier version, please select Line in the left pane, and then choose one line chart type from the right pane, see screenshot:
5. Click OK, and then right click the line in the chart, and select Add Data Labels from the context menu. See screenshot:
6. Then you can see the cumulative sum chart has been finished:
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1. Select the created chart, and then click Kutools > Navigation > Auto Text, see screenshot:
2. Then click button, in the New Auto Text box, please enter the name and choose the group to your need, and then click Add button. See screenshot:
3. And the chart has been inserted into the Auto Text pane, when you want to insert it to anywhere, please click Insert to insert the chart, see screenshot:
4. Then you should apply the new data into the chart as you need, please selec the chart, and then click Design > Select Data, see screenshot:
5. In the Select Data Source dialog box, please click button to select the new data you want to applied to the chart, see screenshot:
6. Then click OK button, the new data will be applied to the cumulative sum chart, see screesnhot:
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.I need horizontal cumulative sum of a series of values of 12 months in a row and in side by side cell. how? is it possible? I could send you a work sheet but can't. there is no option in this page and i have no email address of you. pls solve my problem and provide me your e-mail as i can send you the excel work sheet.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Great, Very helpful and easy to understad
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.thank you very much! It saved my day.
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Thank you. - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.i want to calculate a running sum.i dont know how to do it in excel.plzzz help me out!!!!!
for eg:-
no sum
6 6
then when i enter some other values in no column then it should be added to the current value of sum i.e
no sum
3 9 (as previous 6 + 3 =9 ) - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.sorry, I used b$2,b2 instead of b$2:b2
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.I tried your example but it's working a bit strange. The first cell (c2) would add B2 to B2 (resulting in 6262 instead of 3131). All the other cells work right. Can you suggest what I can try to fix it? Thanks!
A combo chart in Excel is a chart that displays multiple sets of data in different ways on the same chart. Many kinds of data can be combined into one chart. You could even represent the same data in various ways on a single chart.
For example, you may want to combine a bar graph with a line graph in the same chart.
A combination chart displaying annual salary and annual total debt.
For a refresher on making standard graphs and charts in Excel, check out this helpful article: How to Create Graphs in Excel
Making a Combo Chart
It’s easy to make a combination (combo) chart!
- Begin by selecting a range of data in your spreadsheet. Select multiple columns of data (or series) to build a combo chart.
- Go to the instert tab and click Combo Chart from the Charts group.
- Now you may select one of three common formats, or choose to “Create Custom Combo Chart.” Try out a few designs until you find one that you like.
For example, to create the chart shown above, you would first select the rightmost two columns of data, entitled “Salary (in $)” and “Total Debt.”
If you select all three columns, then the chart function will assume that you want to graph the years, 2000, 2001, …, 2018, as values in the chart. (Keep in mind, you can always go back and edit the chart so that it uses “Years” as horizontal axis labels.)
Combo Charts With Three Series
Now let’s go back to our salary and debt chart and add another series of data. Suppose you want to track your savings as well.
First, create a new column for Savings.
Then, select the rightmost three columns (Salary, Total Debt, and Savings).
This time, let’s create a custom combo chart. Now you will see a dialog box with a number of different options.
Because the savings amounts are so much smaller than either salary or debt, I’ve decided to lump salary and debt together on the primary axis (left), and to put savings on the secondary axis (right). The checkboxes under Secondary Axis allow me to move the data to primary or secondary axis.
I’ve also selected “Line with Markers” for both Total Debt and Savings. Experiment with different formats for different kinds of data. The sky’s the limit!
Finally, after choosing the desired options, then you can create the chart. As before, you might change the horizontal axis labels to show the years. Try out a few different designs for best effect — here is a snazzy dark background and shadowed effects on the lines.