much thanks for your responses, but my question i still unanswered.

is it possible to plot columns of different thicknesses - signifying durations of programs and heights denoting the program ratings.

eg, if a program has a duration of 2 hours and1 trp, the column is 2 units wide and 1 unit tall, another program has a duration of half hour nd trps of 5, the column is half a unit wideand 5 units all.

would appreciate any solution on the same,

thanks , Praveen

You have made my day!!! That was fantastic. Never knew Word is so powerful!!

Thanks a lot!!

In the “trick” range and an offset constant equal or greater than the lowest negative value to all of the numbers. Proceed as in the original instructions.

Finally add another range of data that has two points, the offset constant and the highest value in the original range. Change the axis of that range to “secondary” and make the marker and line style “none” to make it invisible.

Finally, change the tick labels of the primary axis to “none.”

Now you have a good looking chart with an appropriate scale. You may have to tweak the scale range on the secondary axis to make sure it lines up properly.

It gets tricky because what range you hide (or not) depends on where (or if) any of the ranges straddle the zero point.

A more robust solution would be include some boolean logic in the formulas. I’ve been playing around with it and am stymied because the changing relative location of the zero point means:

1) the order of the stack changes
2) the series which should be made invisible changes. It will be either 1stQ, 3rdQ or none.

3) if none, then either the 1st and 2nd, or 3nd and 3rd series need to be rendered in the same color.

The cute trick starts to become an inelegant mess. Macros seem much easier at this point.