My graphed data has about 80 legend entries and I'm only interested in displaying the ones with the highest values attached.
Is there a way to do this in Excel 2010? Manual sorting is not a question, as the graph is operating on a dynamic range.
EDIT: After trying this, along with all the included troubleshooting comments, I still can't find a way of a dynamic legend. Moreover I got dv'd for almost no reason (no comment + dv -> not much help)
Using Python and not Excel is somewhat of an answer. Still interested if this is possible in Excel at all, but it doesn't look like it from my research + community response or should I say lack thereof.
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It's been quite some time since I used a spreadsheet product. In Excel 2003 there was a series autofill feature. I don't mean the "enter two numbers, highlight, and drag" feature. There was a way to bring up a menu, alt-e-i-s if my muscle memory recalls correctly, that would let you specify a start value, end value and step value. It was incredibly useful.
I really could use this feature in Google sheets. I've been searching for the last 15 minutes and can not find it anywhere. I also checked and it looks like this might not be a feature in MS excel anymore, either. Does anyone know if either product can do this?
You are probably looking for the SEQUENCE function in Google Sheets
=SEQUENCE(11,1,6,2)
Please read more about it here
I am currently working to provide an extensive xls-based form, which is then to be filled by various users and submitted to a committee deciding about the files.
The form will need to be printed for this last step, and as some sheets are limited to a couple lines only and others could flow over to a 2nd or 3rd page depending on free text user input, I see the risk of having a lot of white space in the printouts (e.g. three quarters empty pages).
I have considered/am considering some ideas to get this done:
Moving all individual sheets to one sheet, which is then printed more conveniently - probably not a good idea because of the variety of needed column widths making it impossible to properly format anything
Possibly coding in VBA to copy the individual sheets (by print areas) to a word doc, which is then printed easily - I know basic VBA, but would definitely need guidance as to how this could be achieved
Does anyone on here have other ideas or guidance on the ones posed above?
Many thanks in advance
i am working on a project where i need to have a similar google spreadsheet like ui and same functionality which google spreadsheet have including formulas formatting , and most importantly it should handle large data sets of rows approx
50000 rows.
i have used handsontable library for spreadsheet but it dont contain functionbar and its taking too much time to load large data sets.
i researched about other open source spreadsheet grid,
i found slickgrid and kendo ui , please suggest me which one should i use for large data sets which does not affect on performance and should have same ui like google spreadsheet and formula bar.
SlickGrid is great at displaying large datasets due to its virtual scrolling. However, spreadsheets are not its main purpose and you might find it a lot of work to do what you are describing. Slickgrid is more of a toolkit than anything - the foundations are great, and you can build a solid structure on top. But it's not going to give you what you want out of the box.
Ag-Grid is a another grid that is the only grid I've seen that is similar in design to SlickGrid, you might want to check it out - the basic version is free, for the more advanced features you need the paid version. In general, there's a large gap between grids that are good at display (there's a zillion of them), and ones that offer good editing features. That's generally the dividing line.
Note that what you are describing is something that companies have built whole businesses on - it's not going to be quick or easy no matter which way you go.
I have created 2 columns, the first has a category of a system using data validation, and the second has the description and failures of that system.
The purpose of that is to open a malfunction on some parts.
In a different sheet I wish to do the same only this time I want to choose the system and the description will automatically appear in the next column showing me all the malfunctions I have written on this system.
I am not very good at all the functions of excel. but I still searched for one that might help me. I have tried using the DGET function but it got me nowhere.
Perhaps try the solution here - it's a bit tricky to explain without copy-pasting the whole thing:
https://superuser.com/questions/536234/excel-how-to-vlookup-to-return-multiple-values
Also take a look at vlookup() if you're working across spreadsheets.
As expected, all of the responses you've seen ehere - and probably elsewhere - are ponyers to VLookup, or a refusal to answer your question.
I'm guessing that you're using DGET() because you need to retrieve data from one named column, using a match for a search term in another named column; and you're that because you can't rely on column ordinals or addresses - you have to do it by name.
VLookup won't do that for you: not without extremely complex and fragile array formulae.
The bad news is: Microsoft NEVER published a working example of a DGET() formula or any corresponding VBA Worksheet Function code.
There's page after page of descriptive text and general explanation in the helpfiles and on MSDN: but no working example. Nobody in Redmond ever sat down and made the DGET() function work with a reproducible set of function parameters and published a screen-shot the working formula.
I'll let you guess why that is.
Maybe there's an example somewhere that is, in effect, a VLookup implemented for known column ordinals using DGET(). If there is, I never found it and you won't either: and it would, of course, be useless for any application where you're working with field names instead of known ordinals.
What you need to do is capture the tabulated data range, with field names in the top row, and pass it to a SQL query using ADODB or MS-Query. That bad new for that is that all the MS-JET Excel drivers have a fatal memory leak.
After that fails, you're left exporting the data somewhere that a proper database app can run the SQL: and that's actually the right thing to do, because your attempt at using DGET() is a relational data query.
If you're left with the need to do this entirely in Excel, you have reached a level of desperation normally associated with the last survivor of an airplane crash who, having devoured the charred remains of his unlucky fellow passengers, is finally forced to contemplate the awful exigency of opening and eating the inflight catering meals.
The grisly details for the equivalent in Excel are a Horrible Hack published here:
http://excellerando.blogspot.com/2014/09/from-time-to-time-it-necessary-to.html
Hi I have a Reporting service report. I am using grouping on the report. My report looks great in HTML rendering, but in excel version the first and the last columns are having extra lines, where that lines are not in html version.
Could anyone please give me a hint , why its so.
Thanks,
Suni
If any controls overlap or are even a single pixel higher or lower in the designer the Excel rendering engine will interpret them as a new row. Use the property sheet to verify that no controls overlap and that the top and height properties for the controls are identical.
Hope this helps,
Bill
I ran into this problem a lot when using report headers, where a company logo or report title was much longer than any of the fields of the report, causing merged cells. There is an option you can set in the config of the report server to use simple headers, as well as limit some of the impact of the misaligned cells issue Bill Mueller mentions. Here is a good example of how to achieve this: http://mysqlserverblog.com/2008/01/03/changing-export-options-for-reporting-services.aspx
i have seen this quite a lot, if people tend to export the report a lot i remove all of the formatting from it, limit the number of groups you can drill down into and do as Bill says and make sure you have no overlapping controls.