How to Combine Two Line Graphs in Excel

What Is a Line Graph in Excel?

The line graphs or line charts represent data categories on the horizontal axis and data values on the vertical axis. They can display more data points than columns or bar charts.

When Should We Use Line Graphs?

Line graphs are used to represent trends over time (years, months, and days) or categories.

This is the sample dataset. To show Alex and John’s sales over the six months:

Method 1 – Use the Copy-Paste Option to Combine Two Line Graphs in Excel

STEPS:

Select B5:B11.
Press Ctrl and select C5:C11.

Go to the Insert tab and select Insert Line or Area Chart.
Select Line.

A line graph will be displayed.

The graph shows the Sales Amount of Alex in the Y-axis and the Months in the X-axis.

Select the months again: B5:B11.
Press Ctrl and select John’s sales amount. Here, D5:D11.

Follow the previous steps to show John’s line graph.

There are two separate line graphs in the datasheet.

To combine the two graphs, right-click a graph. Here, John’s.

Go to the Home tab and select Copy.

Select the first graph.

Go to the Home tab again and select Paste.

The two combined line graphs will be displayed.

You can change the Chart Title and add Legends.

Method 2 – Combine Two Line Graphs in Excel Using the Insert Tab

STEPS:

Select the cells that you want to represent in the line graphs. Here, B5:D11.

Go to the Insert tab and select Charts to open the Insert Chart window.

Select All Charts and choose Combo.
In Chart Type, choose Line.

Click OK to see the result.

To change the title, click the Chart Title and rename it.

Method 3 – Combine a Line and an Existing Line Graph in Excel

The dataset contains a table and a graph with information about Alex’s Sales Amount over the first six months. Add John’s Sales Amount to this dataset and combine the two line graphs.