At the moment, a column chart section carries numeric information only through one aspect: The column height (and, granted, some category information by its color). Sometimes, we want to express _two_ numeric aspects for each item/element - which is not quite the same as expressing the same numeric aspect for two data series, so that a stacked column will not do. Only few LibreOffice chart types offer this expressivity (e.g. X-Y scatter). For column charts to offer this, the natural aspect to use is the column _width_, which is currently always uniform. MS Excel, apparently, already has support for variable-width column charts, and so should we. Note: Variable-width stacked charts are a further complication, perhaps meriting its own bug since deciding how to define those is not completely straightforward. So, for now, let's just have non-stacked variable-width column charts.
Created attachment 202484 [details] A simulated variable-width column chart in Excel
Created attachment 202485 [details] Example of a variable-width column chart with labels on the columns
Please share an example sheet from MSO.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > Please share an example sheet from MSO. Hmm, you got me there! I was 'taken' by the screenshot of what is supposedly a straight-up Excel chart. It turns out Excel doesn't support them directly; but you can achieve the effect by creating an area chart from a derivative table of your original data, as explained e.g. in this video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEcShc1Nyeg this can probably be done in LibreOffice too; but it would be better if it were supported directly.
+1 to feature parity with well-known tools (if Excel had this out of the box...) 0 to adding features without clear user need (more than "would be nice to have") -1 to try making LibreOffice a "leading" statistics tool (advanced graphics are better handled where advanced data processing is done)