Stacked bar(column) charts are a popular way to depict 2 more series of related data, like sales of 2 products.
But there are several ways to stack the bars in a bar chart. Here is a list of 6 ways to stack them
1. One on top of another
Advantages: Easy to create, takes less space
Drawbacks: Hard to compare, only first value starts at zero
2. Separated
Advantages: Easy to read and compare
Drawbacks: takes more space, needs extra calculation for the gap series
3. Mirrored:
Advantages: looks fancy and takes less space, good for large data sets
Drawbacks: needs extra calculation
4. Partially Overlapped
Advantages: Easy to compare, Easy to make
Drawbacks: One series dominates another, good where domination is needed (like this vs. last year)
5. Completely Overlapped
Advantages: easy to compare
Drawbacks: Needs extra formatting, not always produces good results
6. Hanged from Top and Bottom
Advantages: none
Drawbacks: difficult to compare, needs extra formula to calculate gap series
I like 2 and 5 and use them whenever I can.
What about you? How do you like your bars?
PS: for the purpose of discussion neglect other important chart elemets like labels, colors etc.
7 Responses to “Extract data from PDF to Excel – Step by Step Tutorial”
Dear Chandoo,
Thank you very much for this and it is very helpful.
However, all the Credit Card Statements are now password protected.
Please advise how can we have a workaround for that
Hello sir,
How to check two names are present in the same column ?
Thanks and Regards
Hi, Thank you for the great tip. One problem, when I click on get data >> from file, I don't see the PDF source option. How can I add it?
I tried to add it from Quick Access toolbar >>> Data Tab, but again the PDF option is not listed there.
I am using Office 365
Hi, Thank you for your video. I see you used the composite table, but I when I load my pdf, it does not load any composite table. It has 20 tables and 4 pages for one bank statement. I have about 30 bank statements that I want to combine. Your video would work except that I can't get the composite table and each of the tables I do get or the pages does not have all the info. what to do?
Dear Chandoo,
How do we select multiple amount of tables/pages in one PDF and repeat the same for rest of the PDF;s in the same folder and then extract that data only on power query.
Thank you
Hi, Thank you for your video. I see you used the composite table, but I when I load my pdf, it does not load any composite table. It has 20 tables and 4 pages for one bank statement. I have about 30 bank statements that I want to combine. nice share
One bank statement takes up 20 tables and four pages in this document. I need to consolidate roughly thirty different bank statements that I have. Your video would be useful if I could only get the composite table, which I can't for some reason, and each of the tables or pages that I can get is missing some information.