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Anonymous
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Columns change to vertical lines when adding Line Value

Hi there

When I add Line Values to a line and column chart, why do the columns change to lines?

Before:

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After:

 

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Many thanks!

 

 

 

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parry2k
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@Anonymous are you drilling from fiscal year to date? Try two thing:

 

- remove fiscal year and see data by date (for testing)

- on format pane, change the x-axis to categorical than continuous

 

IT is not a data issue

 

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parry2k
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@Anonymous are you drilling from fiscal year to date? Try two thing:

 

- remove fiscal year and see data by date (for testing)

- on format pane, change the x-axis to categorical than continuous

 

IT is not a data issue

 

Follow us on LinkedIn

 

Check my latest blog post Comparing Selected Client With Other Top N Clients | PeryTUS  I would ❤ Kudos if my solution helped. 👉 If you can spend time posting the question, you can also make efforts to give Kudos to whoever helped to solve your problem. It is a token of appreciation!

 

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Subscribe to the @PowerBIHowTo YT channel for an upcoming video on List and Record functions in Power Query!!

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Anonymous
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Changing to categorical worked! many thanks 🙂 

parry2k
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@Anonymous not sure why but works fine for me, do you have anything on legend/column series?



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Anonymous
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Laganlle_2-1625855761221.png

 

Nothing really complicated - would the Date cause issues? 

Anonymous
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Many thanks for your reply

It's the same for both 'line and stacked column chart' and 'Line and clustered column chart'

parry2k
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@Anonymous use stacked and line column visual

 

 
 

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