If I have multiple data points on a bubble graph. Is there any way to get a line drawn between data-point-pairs, with a text box?
- This will probably need some coding skill.
Here is a representation of what I am looking for, however the lines between data-point-pairs, with a text box was manually drawn.
Please help!
Line:
Right-click one of the data-points and "add trend-line" (linear). Right-click to format the trend-line and select arrows in begin/end arrow type
Text:
There a various ways of doing this, a simple solution: Go to Chart Tools->Format->Insert shape and type "= Cell with text+value to be displayed" in the formula bar when editing the text-box. People can join in as there may be a more sleek way of creating data-labels for a trend line.
Save it:
Right-click the chart and "Save as template" for future use.
Related
In excel charts can we change design of bars from
to
Background: I have taken agile project plan excel template from https://www.smartsheet.com/agile-project-management-excel-templates, but I didnt like the bars without arrows and hence I want to change these bars to look something like bars in https://www.smartsheet.com/agile-project-management-excel-templates#agile-product-roadmap-template
Lead here is appreciated.
Half... Let me show and you decide :)
This arrow is not a chart object. It's a shape, a drawing:
However, we can use shape object in Excel charts.
Remove text (you'll see in the last picture why) and Copy the excel object (picture above).
Mark the chart series you want to replace (notice I marked all of them, small circles)
Then just paste :D!!
Notice one bar has a border line, just click on the bar -> "Fill & Line" -> "Border" -> "No Line" to hide the border line around your shape object.
You can do it individually with different colours. When the graph changes the size of your bars changes too (according to your data). It's a bit more "maintenance" but looks better. General rule, the better it looks, the more "special" it is (more manual involvement)...
I am currently using Excel 2013. I wanted to use vertical headings in tables instead of horizontal ones. Horizontal headers take a lot of space but vertical ones don't.
I looked upon a number of web sites but not even one gave an intelligent answer. There were answers like inserting a section break or an image, etc.
I am a 9th grade student.
You can change the text direction by editting the "Format" of a cell or range of cells:
A table:
Right click on the header cells after selecting them and go to "Format Cells":
Go to the Alignment tab and change the alignment to 90 degrees:
Click OK and your text will be vertically aligned. You can align the cell text to the left using the button at the top to make it a bit prettier if you want:
Good luck on the class!
I'm using SSRS 2008 to export data to an excel file. I need 4 worksheets in the file. As a result, I'm inserting a page break after each Tablix. But when there's no data in the page,it's merging the sheet with the next one. I looked up for help, I found one where it says I need to insert a rectangle to avoid this. I'm not sure how I do this. Any help?
To add a rectangle On the Insert tab, in the Report Items group, click
Rectangle. On the design surface, click the location where you want
the upper left corner of the rectangle, and drag to where you want the
lower-right corner. Note that as you move the cursor, "snap lines"
appear as the cursor lines up with other objects on the design
surface. These help you if you want objects to be aligned.
Then I believe you set the page break to occur after the rectangle instead of after the tablix
I have an Excel 2010 chart, with several series. I have added data labels to one of the series. I want to change the font size of all labels of that series at once. Can it be done?
Note that if the contents of data labels are combinations of the three standard options in the Format Data Labels dialog ("Series Name", "X Value", or "Y Value"), I simply change the font size in the ribbon and it works.
But if data labels contain cell references (i.e., formulas), I could only change the font size of one label at a time.
I guess a macro would help. I tried something a while ago, and faced a sequence of problems (do not remember exactly which).
Anyone knows of a shorter/alternative solution?
It appears I found the cause.
Referring to the figure, whenever any of the cells referred to by the data labels is empty (e.g., deleting the contents of D4), I cannot change the font size.
If I reinstate D4, I can change the font size again. This is reproducible for the simple worksheet/chart of the figure.
According to this,
Workaround 1: Fill up all empty cells referred to. Change the format of labels. Remove added contents.
Workaround 2: Change to a dummy range for the data labels, which has no empty cells. Change the format of labels. Switch back to your intended range.
This might require The XY Chart Labeler, an excellent add-in by Rob Bovey.
This does not always work (there are cases where one cannot change font even with all non-empty cells), so there should be another possible cause for the problem (besides the one reported).
A workaround:
For the workbook, Save As... (you can even use the same workbook name). The problem goes away.
But if you close the file and open it again, the problem reappears.
Most of the times it works.
A workaround (found prior to #1):
A very poor solution, but which possibly saves quite a few keystrokes/mouse clicks in many cases. Select the whole chart, and change the font size in the ribbon. It will change all text. Then recover the font size of all other text but the data labels.
It won't work in charts with more than one series with such data labels, if you want them to have different sizes!
A quick way to solve this is to:
Go to the chart and left mouse click on the 'data series' you want to edit.
Click anywhere in formula bar above. Don't change anything.
Click the 'tick icon' just to the left of the formula bar.
Go straight back to the same data series and right mouse click, and choose add data labels
This has worked in Excel 2016. Purely by luck I worked this out saving a great deal of time and frustration.
I Have created a bar chart in a 2007 .xls file, but the data labels cannot be resized. When you go to the "format Data Labels" and then click on alignment, the Autofit and Internal Margin option is grayed out. Anyone know why?
Short version: It is greyed out for chart text, because it the option doesn’t apply.
Long version:
This is because on a chart, chart text do need to use margins, rather you can you can just move the text., and set its X and Y position. For example take the Chart Title, if you want more space to the left, just click and drag the title to the right. If you want the chart title to be bigger you just set a larger font, you have complete control over the title, as well as all other text on that chart, axis titles, legends, data labels, etc.
Internal margins are meant to be used when you don’t have complete control take for example text in a shape. If you insert a shape in your workbook, and add text to it, you cannot just pick the text up and move it to the right if you want more space on the left, so you can set the margin.
Here's a trick that worked for me:
My problem was: I added more text to the axis title and it was too long for it's original shape so some text went into second line.
My solution: I type the complete text somewhere else, copy the text, double click on the axis title and delete the original text -- the cursor would still be there -- now insert the copied text. Done! They are all in one line!
Partial solution to resize label to a single line: Data labels in a chart will often wrap themselves, when you dont want them to. They would often seem better in a vertical single line above the graph item. Reset them to one single line by editing the text in the label, deleting the Excel imposed return, and replace it with a space. The line, and label box, will resize to fit a single line. However because you have "manually interfered with the lable, it will no longer update for changing graph data. You would have to double click each lable then reset it. Most annoying.
A way around it is to make the chart area big. The data label boxes will resize to fit the words in one line. Then make the chart small (not the chart area).
Manually insert a textbox into the bar chart and type in the label that way. It's annoying and labor-intensive, but it works.