If the chart for which you want to change the plotting order displays axes, you can quickly reverse the order in which the categories or values are plotted along those axes. Additionally, in 3-D charts that have a depth axis, you can reverse the plotting order of data series so that large 3-D data markers do not block smaller ones. More @Wikipedia
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