Excel chart with year-to-year comparison
- by Craig
Given this data:
Date Year Month Usage (Kw-h) Cost/Month
02/19/08 2008 2 501 59.13
03/18/08 2008 3 404 48.49
04/16/08 2008 4 387 45.67
05/22/08 2008 5 319 37.85
06/23/08 2008 6 363 43.81
07/23/08 2008 7 372 48.86
08/21/08 2008 8 435 59.74
09/23/08 2008 9 358 49.9
10/16/08 2008 10 313 42.01
11/20/08 2008 11 328 39.99
12/16/08 2008 12 374 44.7
01/20/09 2009 1 474 55.35
02/19/09 2009 2 444 52.85
03/19/09 2009 3 398 49.25
04/17/09 2009 4 403 51.05
05/19/09 2009 5 405 49.61
06/18/09 2009 6 373 45.18
07/20/09 2009 7 337 44.67
08/18/09 2009 8 369 50.73
09/17/09 2009 9 377 52.36
10/16/09 2009 10 309 43.4
11/17/09 2009 11 249 34.14
12/16/09 2009 12 327 41.79
01/20/10 2010 1 356 45.66
I would like to produce a report that displays a Usage (Kw-h) line for each year.
Features:
Y axis: Usage (Kw-h)
X axis: Month
Line 0..n: lines representing each year's monthly Usage (Kw-h)
Bonus points:
instead of a line for each year, each month would have a high-low-close (HLC) bar; 'close' would be replaced by the average
second Y axis and HLC bar that represents cost/month
Questions:
Can this be done without a Pivot table?
Do I need to have the Year and Month column or can Excel automatically determine this?
Current chart:
