combining two different graphs into one (superimposing)

uwresearcher

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Hi there!
So I have two graphs (x-y line graph) that I would like to combine/superimpose from two separate excel spreadsheets.
They both have year as x-axis, and one chart has rain accumulation in mm, and the other has population abundance in # of organisms.
Is there a way to plot this together? (like, y-axis can represent both rain+population abundance)


screenshot of the graphs below.
please help!
thank you :)

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Copy your second set of data. Activate the first chart, Edit > Paste Special, select New Series and click OK.
 
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I don't understand what you mean by copy the second data set.
Also, under edit, I don't have an option for Paste special.
Can you please walk me through this a bit more thoroughly please? I'm really bad at excel...
 
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Select the second set of data. Edit > Copy. Click on the first chart to activate it. Edit > Paste Special, tick New Series and follow the prompts.
 
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I'm sorry but I don't know how better to explain it. Which version of Excel are you using. Is the chart an embedded chart on a sheet or on a chart sheet?
 
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I am using excel 2007, probably home or student version (I have windows vista).
So what I did was I had two shreadsheets with different data in each. I graphed each of those data to get the two graphs. I copy and pasted each graph into a new (3rd) excel worksheet, and that's what you see in the screenshot.

attached is the screenshots of two separate excel worksheets that I got the graphs from (before I copy and pasted the two graphs into a 3rd worksheet)

I hope that clarifies a little bit more??? Please please please help...

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