You shouldn’t need to use a crosstab as the Row Source of the chart. I created a similar chart in the Northwind sample database with a Row Source of:

SELECT Orders.[Order Date], Sum([Order Details].Quantity) AS Qty
FROM Orders LEFT JOIN
[Order Details] ON Orders.[Order ID] = [Order Details].[Order ID]
GROUP BY Orders.[Order Date];

There are a couple of icons in chart design that are “By Column” and “By Row”. I selected the By Row and my chart appears as expected with creating a crosstab.

http://www.msaccesstips.com/downloads/2008/06/workingwith_chartobject.php

To place the Data Labels on the top, click on one of the labels to select the labels(see that all the labels on the series is selected, if you click on the label one more time then only that label will be selected). Right-click on one of the selected labels to display a shortcut menu. Select Format Data Labels option and select the required position of labels from the drop-down menu. You can make the labels to rotate a certain angle by dragging the text meter (right side) to a certain position.

Though I have worked with Access queries and reports for a number of years, I had not ever worked with Access graphs. I also plan to comment on my pie adventure on you pie post as some very weird things are happening there with my values that I need to display as percents, but I will leave that for later.

I followed your directions above, step by step, using your sample data and your crosstab query(by the way your cross tab says Sum(Stock1.Val) but your data says “Value” which caused an error until I fixed the field name so you might want to make the field names consistent. It worked.

Then I used my own data and the column graph is pretty good, except that the 3 dimensional one does not label each column (labels every other one),but the flat one does. Also the 3 d one puts the values right on the bars instead of on top so they are had to read, but the flat one looks find. Is there a trick to handle these issues as the firm I work for uses the 3d ones in Excel so I would rather use 3 d if I could get the labels and values to work properly.

Also is there a trick to get more then 6 columns to show? I can get my seven columns to show in the demo in design view but in report view one does not show. My firm has a graph with seven columns so I would like to do the same.

Thanks again.

Leah

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