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  • Offline zpyder

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Another excel question...chart colour schemes
on: December 14, 2009, 18:53:49 PM
So Ive got a dataset with multiple pie charts for different sub-groups in a sample, shown below:



As you can see, excel has automatically assigned the default colour scheme, which is fine. The problem is that Id like it to assign the same colour to the same data label for each chart. So for example H2c would want to be Dark red, not lighter red or blue, for all the charts.

Is there a way of setting this automatically or is it a case of going through and assigning the colours individually? :(

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Re:Another excel question...chart colour schemes
Reply #1 on: December 14, 2009, 19:09:23 PM
Need to put a 0 row in the charts that dont have a data value for some of the categories so you have same number of rows underlying each chart. that should sort it.
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Re:Another excel question...chart colour schemes
Reply #2 on: December 14, 2009, 19:31:18 PM
Hmm, that aught to do it, though part of me wonders if there isnt an easier/quicker solution!

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