How To Create Interactive Charts in Excel Using Chart Events

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This is a common requirement while creating dashboards. One selects an option and the charts update to show data for that particular selection. It would be very useful if the same chart could show you how that particular selection fares against average or a set benchmark.

Comparison Chart Against AverageLet's take an example. I have data for a class of students with their subject marks. I make a selection of the student name, his marks for each subject are plotted on a chart. I wish to see how this particular student has performed in each subject as against the class average. This custom chart does just the same, and it can be very very easily created in Excel as below:

Step 1: Create a Clustered Column chart with both the series.

Step 2: Right-click on the series that you want to compare and plot it on the secondary axis.

Step 3: Format the 'average' data series, decrease gap width.

Step 4: Ensure that the primary and secondary axis have the same units and same minimums and maximums (as desired)
Step 5: Format the chart until you are happy with how it looks.Comparison Chart Against Average
Step 6: Your chart is ready


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