I'm using Excel 2016 and wanted to know how I can make a chart that represents a spectrum from left to right with labels on both sides, and a marker in the middle. Essentially I want to represent the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.
What I've tried so far is to make a horizontal bar chart with a marker, but I can't seem to get labels to the left and right. How might I be able to achieve this?
You just need to add text boxes from drawing tools and put them on top of the chart. Set their backgrounds to transparent by choosing no fill.
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Hi, I have trouble with my line chart here, the line chart is overlaping and it makes another line is not visible or covered up.
If the data is so similar then the lines will overlap.
One thing you can start with is using a false y-axis zero, starting the chart at, say, 50%, this may provide sufficient separation if the values do have differences.
Is this specific type of line chart necessary?
A 3D Line chart might get past the problem.
Image of a 3D chart with similar data in 2 series
If you want to stop similar/identical lines overlapping without changing their actual values, you're going to need to plot one of those lines on a different scale:
in the 'chart design' tab hit 'change chart type'
change it to 'combo chart', ad set both series as lines but in one of them, tick the box for 'plot on secondary axis'. Or, you could set one series as a different type of chart, e.g. a bar chart.
If both are lines and both axes default to the same scale (which is quite probable), you'll want to edit one of them to adjust the scale. Right click on a chart element and hit 'format', then select either 'vertical axis options' or 'secondary vertical axis options' from the dropdown, then click the fourth icon (little bar chart) and adjust the minimum and/or maximum bounds.
Hopefully that should separate the lines out without changing the values they actually depict. However, if it really comes to that, it might be easier to set them as two different charts. Certainly would make it easier to interpret the values.
In MS Excel, I applied conditional formatting to a cell A1 so that it's color changes from blue at value 0 and red at value 100. I copied that cell and pasted it as linked picture(I) specially.(Paste Special). The color of the rectangle picture now changes if value in original cell is changed. The problem is, the shape is only rectangular, it can be converted into square and diamond shape at best.If same rectangle can be transformed into different shapes(maybe by adding extra anchor on rectangle shape), a heat map can be created easily. Please share your insights about this thing if there is a way.
Following pictures may help understand the problem:
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If you want a heat map, please consider using a CHART not gazillions of picture objects, colored/placed/rotated/etc to ... mimic a chart.
First, google anything about "surface chart" in Excel, see how it looks in Excel, whatever. Just see it and think about it so you can compare it to your current approach.
You will observe some things, like:
it's 3D
it has just a few layers/colors
etc.
But really, all of them can be solved. Probably easier than your current approach.
you can easily turn off both axes and you can rotate it so the camera is totally straight top-down - then it looks flat as paper and noone can see it as 3D anymore
you can add more layers, you can set each of them to specific colors
etc.
Some resources:
multiple colors in surface chart
how to change rotation of 3d chart
geesh, I just found even a whole article/tutorial dedicated to creating heat map charts.
Please, read that last link and I'm pretty sure you will want to use that approach instead of doing picture puzzles.
I am trying to give some border to my cross text which around 45 degree in excel but issue is that whenever i apply border to cross text the border also get apply at 45 degree.
I am looking for a straight rectangle border which contains cross text in it in excel.
Please help me to do that
I dont think you can find a way around that, but you could improvise;
try removing all the borders on that particular cell then sort of draw a rectangle (Or similar shape) and set its fill to nothing so it can give this impression of a "straight border" and this will look good, if you format it well that is, on printed paper.
Or you can draw a textbox on top of the cell (with the same size) and remove any color fill
If there's an option of locking its position, it would be useful too
I'm having a problem to making some points of my series (making them invisible). In the image below, you can see that it goes well until I make the point invisible. The marker's legend get all confused and set the legend to the XValues, in this case "1","2", and so on.
Is it possible to make a point invisible but keeping the original marker legend?
May I suggest to substitute the "invisible" points' values with CVErr(xlErrNA)? That way the line will still be drawn, but these points will be "ignored".
Or do you need to mantain those values?
Im using Excel for Mac 2011 and I have the following figure
I would like to still show the bubbles outside of the available chart area, while keeping the maximum and minimum axes values unchanged.
Create an identical chart with the same data, but with axis limits that show the full bubbles. Then set all the formatting in the chart other than the bubbles to the equivalent of "none", i.e, no axis labels, chart outlines, gridlines, chart and plot borders, background color, etc.
With very careful sizing and positioning of this bubbles-only chart over the original chart, you can get the bubbles to extend beyond the plot area of the original. If the size or position of a bubble is a little off, modify the overlay chart's data by the tiny amount needed to get the bubble to cover the underlying original bubble. Turn off the formatting for the underlying bubbles as last step.
NOT programmatic, very trial and error, and fussy, of course, and I hope someone comes up with a more elegant way to achieve your goal. But I was able to get it to work on my Windows machine.