I would like to make a stacked transparent chart like this in Excel 2016.
I cannot find the "format data series" option that this person is using.
http://excelgraphs.blogspot.ca/2013/03/overlayed-multiple-histograms.html
Can anyone please offer some suggestions?
You must select one of the series on chart, right click and on the bottom of dropdown menu you have Format Data Series .
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I want to create a bar chart in Powerpoint with two level header, the exact result I want is as below:
I actually created this sample chart in excel.
Now I am going to duplicate it in Powerpoint. However the most I can do is one level header as below:
When I enter the "edit data" session, it seems extending the select grid (purple grid) to include the year level is impossible. Would anyone please help me?
Select the "Select Data" dialog not the "Edit Data" dialog.
Then, select, "Edit" for the "Horizontal (Category) Axis Labels"
Then, re-select the axis to include both columns A and B.
Then select OK.
Boom, your chart works.
I'd like to create an excel dashboard where the user selects which series are plotted based on a drop down menu. The series for the chart is derived as follows:
=IF(J$6="Plot",100 * D8/D$108,"")
etc.
If I turn off "Plot" the series disappears form the chart but an empty line persists in the legend. I'd like the legend to include only the series I have selected.
Thank you in advance,
Tikhon
I am working with a pie chart whose data labels are added using the best fit property. Most of those labels are placed by Excel inside the pie, but some of them are placed outside.
Because of some series colors are so strong, the data labels had to be defined as white. Of course, the labels placed outside the pie wont be visible if I don't manually change their color (to black, for instance)
What I am trying to do is to conditionally change the label's color according to where Excel placed it (white inside the pie, black outside it), as in the following image:
I have been searching for a solution, but it seems that nobody had a similar problem.
Does anyone know if Excel allows this or does someone know a trick to bypass it?
There is a way to do this in Excel.
When you click on the chart, and go to Layout under Chart Tools.
Once there, go to Data Labels.
When you click on that, it will display a drop-down menu. At the bottom of the menu, click on More Data Label Options.
It will pull up a new window. On the sidebar of the new window, click on Number.
Then, under Category click on Custom.
In the textbox shown under Format Code, type in [Black][<0.05]0%;[White][>=0.05]0%
Click Add.
It should format the numbers outside the pie chart in your example black, and the numbers inside the pie white. If you had different data, you could format it the same, but you would have to change the number in the brackets after the color to the number one higher than number outside of the pie. It would be like this: [Black][<(number one higher than number outside of the pie)]0%;[White][>=(number one higher than number outside of the pie)]0%
Screenshot of Pie Chart Formatting
Source:
http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/01/29/colors-in-excel-chart-labels-trick/
I'm using Office 2013 Excel and making a radar chart. By default the concentric rings are visible, but I want spokes or radial lines from the center to each category on the outside. I can't find out how to do this.
It seems to be a bug in Excel 2013 (and 2016).
A workaround is:
Create a radar chart.
Change the chart type to one of the other two radar charts, for e.g. radar with markers.
Change the chart type back to the original radar chart and format the Y axis to have lines.
These are the steps that I follow to add radial lines:
Create radar chart;
Click on the radar chart to show the Chart Design tab on toolbar;
Click on Change Chart Type and select Radar, then "Radar with
Markers" or "Filled Radar";
Click on Add Chart Elements (on the toolbar), then click on Axes, More Axes Options...;
Click on Fill & Line icon (under the button "Axis Options"), find
Line section and click on Solid line.
How about the code below?
ActiveChart.Axes(xlCategory).hasMajorGridlines=true
Select the target chart on excel.
Press Alt+F11 on excel, then VBE opens.
Press Ctrl+G on VBE, then immediate window opens.
Paste the above code.
Place the cursor on the line of the code and press the enter key.
I made the file with PHPExcel and edit it with excel 2010.
p.s. I confirmed with Excel 2016 without PHPExcel, too.
Right click the rectangular edge of the overall chart.
Click "Chart Area" drop down.
Select "radar (value) axes" and click the pen icon to select a colour.
In Excel for Mac version 16,
1. Create your radar chart.
2. Change chart type to any other chat type.
3. With your new chat selected. Go to Insert==>Chart==>Radar (the chart now allows you to format Y axis).
I'm looking to set up a scroll bar in Excel that corresponds to what set of data I use for a chart. I have built a 2-value doughnut chart that acts as a percentage gauge (green section is completed and grey is 100% minus the completed part).
I want to be able to choose what month's data I use for this chart using the scroll bar. All I can seem to find online is how to modify the number of rows and columns that are displayed on a graph rather than actually using the scroller to pick what data to display.
In addition, how would I make it default to the current month? Any help would be appreciated!
For anyone that is looking for a similar solution, I have figured it out. It works with something called a dynamic range. Use the value of the scrollbar to determine the offset of rows (pick which row of data to use). Then link that dynamic range to your chart in place of where you would select the data.