Comments on: How to create waterfall chart in Excel (bridge chart)

This article looks at creating basic graphs and at a special chart type – the Waterfall chart in Excel. Read on to find out what a waterfall chart is and when you can find it useful. You'll learn what tools can help you with creating waterfall charts in Excel 2016, 2013. Continue reading →

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  1. Works like a charm. Thanks

  2. Thank you for taking out time to explain the tutorials. It is excellent and easy to use. Thanks.

  3. Brilliant and very helpful step-by-step tutorial. Many thanks.

  4. Thanks!!

  5. Thank you very much. Great explanation. Just what I needed.

  6. This is awesome!! It really sorted me out. Thank you.

  7. Oh my god this was amazing!!! Thank you so much!

  8. Thanks for sharing!

  9. I use MarketXLS for this and it's great.

  10. Thank you first of all for this great tutorial and simple to use instructions. When I tried to create my WF chart, after I started with all positive values, and then when the negative values started and the first negative data set "added" to the total of the positive values - that is the stacked column actually went higher rather than dropping - the rest of the negative values after that - it dropped and the final ending number was proper to scale - but the first negative value - the column actually went up instead of dropping - Not sure what I am doing wrong? Please help if you are able to.

  11. Need a solution for water falls that go negative!

  12. This is a great and simple solution. Many thanks.
    But I always use bridges in situations where I have to show 'negative' going into 'positive' ie, EBITDA improvement.
    The current solution will not work for negative to positive positions, I think. Do you have any tutorial that would address this case?
    Best

  13. if my start value is Zero, how to do the waterfall? thanks

  14. Not to nit-pick, but "=IF(E4<=0, -E4,0)" is the same thing as "=-MIN(0,E4)" and the latter is easier to understand. I see people use IF statements for this all the time, but learning MIN and MAX make writing out and auditing the formulas a lot easier. Just FYI.

    Also, it looks like Excel 2016 finally has built-in waterfall chart support. I haven't tried yet so if someone has, please post your experience with it. I hate manually doing this (rather, I hate executives that require these).

  15. Great explanation. It would be useful to know how to deal with negative figures as the above method doesn't seem to work for them.

  16. Very usefull. Congrats

  17. Thank you for a clear and concise explanation.

  18. Genius. thank you. it works perfectly.

  19. Hi,

    Need to create a waterfall chart with price growth & volume growth data.

    Can u plz guide?

    Arun

  20. Thanks much for wonderful tutorial. Nobody could teach the technique in such an easy to understand manner.

    Will go through all other tutorials.

    Thanks a lot , you are doing an awesome work.

  21. very helpful, thanks

  22. It worked well for me.Thanks a ton!

  23. Hi All,

    I want Create Hours Base Graph. can you tell me how can create this.

    Question Example:- 10:00 Am 01:00 PM Total Hours ? Graph Chart?

  24. Very good and easy explanation , Thank you.

  25. Hello , thank you for this helpful demonstration it has taught me alot . My chart is populated and looks exactly as yours does other than the series fall on my chart is showing as 0s instead of the minus numbers . how can i change this without having to enter all of the figures manually please? Many Thanks Amy

  26. Thank you So much this was the most easiest explanation i found on creating waterfall graphs.

  27. Great tutorial

  28. Is there a way to break the Bar chart in waterfall bar chart. One of the value in my data set is quite big and everything else looks very small. So I would like to break the Y axis and the big bar so that all bars are properly visible.

  29. This is great thank you so much!! I had a question. If I wanted to split the fall or rise into three stacked groups as opposed to one how would I do that? For example, January would have Group A=+1500, Group B=+1500, Group C=+500 = 4000 all in one bar.

    Thanks again! :)
    -Chris

  30. Still getting confused with the last bar, the "end" column, cannot select and format on its own, can only select the entire series of "hidden" bars that are hidden/underneath the incremental changes, i.e. the rise/fall bars. Using Excel 2007 (no, cannot upgrade)

  31. I love you, you saved my day at office.

  32. Very NICE!!! Thank you!!

  33. Thank you - very helpful and user friendly.

  34. How about in S.A

    1. But thanks ,well done

  35. Thank you for the simple, yet effective explanations and illustrations.

  36. Very Well explained..I developed PowerPoint/Excel plugin for creating Waterfall chart just like that..Contact me at abhinovpankaj1@gmail.com for more details.

  37. thanks for the information

  38. Thanks for this easily understood tutorial. I have one question which I think still has not been resolved. How did you manage to remove the "base legend" without removing the invisible bar chart? When I try to remove my similar bar chart it makes the floating bars fall to the ground...

  39. When you have several consecutive negative values forcing the base to become negative the falls do not appear below the x axis and show as positive values. Is there a fix for this please?

  40. Thank you so much for publishing this!! Awesome detailed instruction for something a little bit intricate!! Really needed to do some of these charts - deadline today and never did them before. Thanks again!

  41. Hello Thank you for your note.just getting confuse with end data how to populate that in graph.

  42. Excellent, crystal clear explanation! Thank you so much.

  43. Thanks alot....very nicely explained a complex chart....awsome....cherss...... :)

  44. Thank you so much for sharing, this really helped. God bless!

  45. Very very very useful. Takes minimum time to understand and execute
    Thank you

  46. Yes, very helpful guide. Can anyone advise on how to include connector lines between the monthly values
    (------) Thanks.

  47. Dear Ekaterina, thank you for sharing this. I agree will all positive comments.

  48. Great Post

  49. Outstanding & easy to follow!

  50. Dear Ekaterina Bespalaya - Thanks for sharing this tutorial; so easy for even excel dummies to follow. Enjoy your vacation to the Max.

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