New Tutorial: Excel Stacked Waterfall Chart with Decreasing Values
- PINEXL
- Sep 16, 2025
- 2 min read
Detailed Step-by-Step Guide

We’re excited to announce the release of our latest tutorial - a comprehensive guide on how to create a stacked waterfall chart with decreasing values in Excel!
While stacked waterfall charts still require workarounds in Excel, many tutorials attempt to explain the process. However, none of them clearly and thoroughly demonstrate how to build a stacked waterfall chart that handles decreasing values, which is a feature that’s crucial in many real-world scenarios.
That’s exactly why we created this tutorial: to fill the gap and help Excel users around the world build the right chart, the right way!
It’s a detailed process with many steps, but we’ve distilled it into a clear, easy-to-follow guide. We’ve also included advanced features like column subtotals, connector lines, and rolling totals to make your chart more engaging and impactful.
Unlike most of our tutorials, which are delivered as concise video walkthroughs, this one is presented as a written guide. The reason? The process of building a stacked waterfall chart with decreasing values involves multiple layers of logic, formulas, and formatting steps, all of which can become too complicated to follow comfortably in a video format. A written tutorial allows you to move at your own pace, revisit key sections, and fully grasp each part of the build.
To make things even easier, we’re offering a free downloadable workbook with several ready-to-use chart templates, including versions with three data series, not just two - so you can jump right in and customize them to fit your needs.
We hope you find this tutorial helpful and that it saves you time while improving your Excel visualizations.
You can find the tutorial on the following page on our website:
Best Regards,
The Pinexl Team




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