From Googling I've only found "regular" braces, i.e. } in varying sizes. I want to achieve an overbrace spanning some columns in a table. I only want the overbrace (where the brace "starting first" is an overbrace, and the latter an underbrace) and the x over it in the example is not needed.
Is there a way to achieve an overbrace in Excel?
Seems to me better suited to Super User but I am not sure I understand the requirement since you say you know abut "regular" braces. If you would like something like this:
show first with and lower down without the x, it may be achieved with insertion of a shape object: INSERT > Illustrations - Shapes, Right Brace in the case of Excel 2013.
Then rotating, stretching and moving the shape to suit, the handles for which are shown:
and colour adjusted with Shape Outline.
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Extrapolation in Excel is easy: have a list of numbers (and optionally their paired "X-values"), and it can easily generate further entries in the list with the GROWTH() function.
GROWTH() works for interpolation too: you just need to tell it the intermediate X-values that you want it to calculate for. My problem with it is the appearance of the data in the spreadsheet. Here's an example:
Say I have some inputs, and through some process get some outputs. Only, there were gaps in the experiment so no outputs were generated for some values:
Out of curiosity, I copied the data to the right, and used Excel's "Extend with Growth Trend": I highlighted the first two entries (only), then right-click-dragged-down the little square over the next four cells (overriding the final value there) and chose "Growth Trend" in the context menu. To remind myself that the values were Excel-generated, I gave them a grey background:
Hmm. The generated values (unsurprisingly) aren't a good extrapolation, since they don't factor in the later value. It's out by over 40%! Also note that this Extend feature of Excel is an ease-of-input mechanism, not a calculation tool in its own right - Excel enters the data as raw numbers (to multiple decimal places).
So I formalised the Extend column by using the GROWTH() function - again only factoring in the first two values, but also using their paired X-values and the desired interpolation entry as parameters:
D4: =GROWTH(D$2:D$3,$A$2:$A$3,$A4)
D5: =GROWTH(D$2:D$3,$A$2:$A$3,$A5)
D6: =GROWTH(D$2:D$3,$A$2:$A$3,$A6)
Thankfully, the results mimic those of the previous column (Microsoft use the same mechanism for both features!) I didn't overwrite the last entry, since after all it has the value that I actually want! The fact that the calculated values are the same as before is the problem I'm trying to fix, and that this question is about.
To improve the calculated values, I need to incorporate the last value - but at the same time I want the "natural" sequence of input values to be maintained. In other words, I want the interpolated values to be placed in situ. That implies that the arguments to the GROWTH() function need to be discontiguous ranges, which Excel does by using the (Range,Range,...) syntax. I tried it, and got #REF! errors. I then tried using a named discontiguous range: same result.
After a bit of Googling (and StackOverflowing!) I found references to using INDIRECT() - a particularly problematic 'solution', since it evaluates strings that would need to be manually maintained. Nevertheless:
E4: =GROWTH(INDIRECT({"E2:E3","E7"}),INDIRECT({"A2:A3","A7"}),A4)
E5: =GROWTH(INDIRECT({"E2:E3","E7"}),INDIRECT({"A2:A3","A7"}),A5)
E6: =GROWTH(INDIRECT({"E2:E3","E7"}),INDIRECT({"A2:A3","A7"}),A6)
…and after all that it didn't work anyway! The values remained the same as the previous version, that didn't incorporate the last value. Maybe the last value doesn't make for better interpolation results? So, as an experiment, I ignored the "in situ" requirement and generated an "ex situ" version, with the known values followed by the desired values, allowing me to use simple ranges. Success! But to highlight that the data is in the wrong order, I asked Excel to create an X-Y plot of the data too:
B13: =GROWTH(B$10:B$12,$A$10:$A$12,$A13)
B14: =GROWTH(B$10:B$12,$A$10:$A$12,$A14)
B15: =GROWTH(B$10:B$12,$A$10:$A$12,$A15)
Of course, the results are exponential not linear, so setting the Y-axis to logarithmic generates a very readable result - and it effectively masks the back-and-forth of the data. But deep down, we both know that the data is wrong - just look at the table!
Maybe, just maybe, if I used Excel's "Sort Data" feature it would break up the range for me, and show me how I should have written the formulae? Sadly, although it looks like it worked, I get a "Circular reference" error for B12 - the range wasn't modified to make it discontiguous, and now B12's result is dependent on the original range which includes itself! I coloured it below to indicate that this isn't a viable solution:
So, my "final" solution is to maintain the previous "ex situ" version, and simply have an "in situ" column as well that does a VLOOKUP() on the ExSitu (named) table - and I needed to tell it to do an exact match with the FALSE parameter, since the list isn't sorted:
F4: =VLOOKUP($A4,ExSitu,2,FALSE)
F5: =VLOOKUP($A5,ExSitu,2,FALSE)
F6: =VLOOKUP($A6,ExSitu,2,FALSE)
Note that I labelled the column with an asterisk since it's a cheat: the values are only in situ by copying from another table.
Phew! After all that, my question:
Is there a way to directly interpolate the "in situ" values, without having to have an "ex situ" lookup table to generate the results? The above example was deliberately straightforward: you can easily imagine a longer list with more gaps to be filled in.
Since you had a good data sense, I'll share my discovery path on this case. I'm more like a visual person. I don't see things 'that' clear via tables. Here is what I do to you data points. :
Input Raw
360 7.16
370 28.9
380
390
400
410 5,380.00
Highlight all and press my favorite button > F11. I choose line chart type. Then with the plus button on the top left of the chart, I add trendline > more options.. From there I choose 'polynomial' and 'exponential' . Plus, a tick on 'display equation on chart' As you can see in the links, both fit seem ok. just take the equation and fit in for other values as needed.
Three things I've noticed :
The polynomial and exponential fit is close enough to what I need. But it doesn't exactly 'map' on the ( 410, 5380.00 ) point.
By having the formula I find it easier to make sense of whether or not the trendline 'proposed' by excel is a close fit to my need. As you play around you can see how far-off the linear & logarithmic trendline can be.
The trendline equation doesn't really map to 360,370,410... point as the x value, it assumes x is 0,1,2,3... (try to test it with the 'equation' of the excel proposed trendline)
IMHO, use excel trend with care. My next best fitting tool -> wolframalpha logarithmic fit.
For the original question :
Is there a way to directly interpolate the "in situ" values, without having to have an "ex situ" lookup table to generate the results?
I think my simple answer will be : Indirectly, Yes. Directly? not sure.
Hope this heals/helps in some ways.. ( :
I'd like to sort a time series of exam performance by one of three categories:
Ideally, a function would sort the scores by "difficulty" while still preserving chronological order. I'd like to do this without filters etc. Something like this is very close, but not quite there. Do I need to use dynamic ranges? Or can I just define data ranges in the table dialog with VLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH?
I'm thinking a bar graph would be the easiest way to illustrate the data, but I'm open to suggestions. New scores are added every day, with varying difficulties.
Here is the spreadsheet if anyone would like to look it over.
EDIT:
The output visualization could be, for example, a clustered bar graph, but with only one label per category. The idea is that I'd like to preserve chronological order without necessarily having to mark it on the graph.
Would there, for instance, be a quick-and easy and formula-driven way to put these 14 and 17 values for "score" all together under one label? I feel like 17 bar graphs clustered too closely would be hard to read.
I realize this is more of a formatting than a formula issue, but I appreciate input with regards to both.
I would recommend you add a Table over the data in the workbook. One for verbal and one for math. The upside is that it will automatically grow with your data as you add new rows. This is very helpful because charts and other things will automatically refer to the new data. Add one with CTRL+T or Insert->Table on the Ribbon.
Once you have the Table, you can easily do the sorting bit by adding a two column sort onto the Table. This menu is accessible by right clicking in the Table and doing Sort->Custom Sort. Again, the Table is nice here because it will only sort the data within it (not the whole sheet) and will remember your settings. This lets you add new data and simply do Data->Reapply to get it to sort again. Your sort on Difficulty is going to be alphabetic unless you add a number at the front. Here is the sorting step:
With this done, you can create a quick chart based on that data. For the "implicit chronology" you can simply plot score vs. difficulty for all of them since they are sorted.
To get closer to that matrix style display, you can easily create a PivotTable based on this Table and let it do the organizing by date/difficulty. Here is the result of that. I am using Average as the aggregation function since it appears that no dates have more than 1 score. If they did, it would be a better choice than Sum.
I faced following problem with exporting ssrs report to excel.
When I create a table having 4 columns and then exporting it to excel I get the proper layout:
But when I remove at least one of the column in ssrs designer (when table consists of less than 4 columns), after exporting it to excel, one column is being hidden:
When I manually changed the width (by typing width in properties window) to at least 3 cm, after exporting it to excel the additional column disapeared (even if the table has less than 4 columns).
Does anyone know why this happens?
Any help will be appreciated.
Easy solution: Work in POINTS, not Inches or Centimeters.
Excel renders in points, so this prevents all roundoff in positioning. It is that easy.
It's an issue with the header.
To avoid this all together insert a row in your tablix (above everything else) and set the "RepeatOnNewPage" tablix property to 'True' (Advanced Mode >> select the static row groups you need to repeat >> RepeatOnNewPage).
This approach does the same thing as a header and you won't have to deal with those pesky extra columns any longer!
Try rectangle in to rectangle.
If this do not work - insert a list and insert your object in to list.
This should help - don't know why is that - but sometimes it take a lot of attempts and scenarios to work this out for one report... just keep trying with rectangles and lists - this is what I always do.
This is common problem in SSRS - the way how I removing this problem is to use rectangle's .
Insert rectangle then CUT your table/matrix PASTE inside rectangle - make sure there is not empty spaces.
If you using more than one table/matrix , then insert rectangle inside rectangle etc. ( my record is 14-th depth ) - this is VERY annoying but I know only this way.
- ALSO - fit everything to left side corner
It works fine for me ... what ver of excel do you use ?
Can you post here rdl file or code from file ?
Are you using report builder or Visual Studio ?
- Do you have any more objects on the report or just that table ?
D.
I find that if you have headings in your reports above the actual tablix, you will have to extend the width of the heading to match the width of the tablix (you should see the blue lines showing the alignments) and ensure that the headings also align with where the tablix begins. Basically, just make sure that everything is aligned. Hope this helps.
After struggling with this for a few days this blog post helped me out:
How to eliminate merged and hidden Cells issue from Excel Export of SSRS report - MSDN
The problem seems to be that pixels and centimetres (or inches) don't line up nicely. When you drag the columns around they get non-exact approximations of the value. When you put a nice round number (even like 3.25cm) they seem to play nicer. You'd probably want to use pixels or points (what Excel uses to store cell size) to prevent the last column compressing.
I hope this helped a bit...
Late to the game, as usual. But I played around with this for a while, and it looks to me like it's just going to end up being fairly random. Sometimes I can get them to go away, sometimes I can't. I don't always have the ability to change things to nice round numbers that represent an even number of points. And even when I do, it still doesn't always work. But I did notice this. If you zoom in closely, you can see that the lines are just slightly misaligned. Believe me when I tell you that mathematically that shouldn't be happening. But I wondered if that might help explain the problem.
I made a XY plot that shows points from one data set in two different colors, depending on a set of conditions. I achieved this by making the source table three columns instead of two. First column is the X. Second column is Y is one set of conditions apply, third column is Y is the other set of conditions apply. So the second and third columns have formulas like this in them, respectively:
=IF(ConditionApplies,YValue,"")
=IF(ConditionApplies,"",YValue)
(So the graph actually has two series, each of which is not a contiguous block of numbers - each is interspersed with "nothing")
When I make a change that affects the ConditionApplies, the table reacts properly. Then I switch to the chart (on a different sheet) and it always says: "A formula in this worksheet contains one or more invalid references...". Click OK.
The chart itself always looks the way I would expect, with two different sets of points according to the Conditions I devised. If I inspect the data source fields, all the references are intact and proper.
Basically everything works, I would just like to avoid this annoying pop-up.
Had the same problem. Deleted a data column and the chart that referenced it kept complaining.
Solution was to move the chart to its own page. then copy the chart and put it back into worksheet.
Hope it helps.
I 100% understand everything you've said here and, on the surface, it sounds like it's not any kind of bug. It seems like you are actually referencing something you shouldn't. If that's, in fact, the case that's obviously something you want to fix.
My first guess would be to look at your "ConditionApplies" formulas. Under certain cases, would they create invalid references (referencing data of the wrong type, dividing by zero, circular references, etc.). The most common cause of problems like that would be dragging formulas but not having the "$" signs in the appropriate places. So your cell references change when you expected they'd stay the same.
For example:
=SUM(A1:G25)
should be something like the following to prevent the column and row from incrementing when dragged:
=SUM($A$1:$G$25)
Recommendation
Look at the "ConditionApplies" formulas (or better yet, post them here) and aggressively place $ where ever they don't break things. Then "re-drag" your new formulas, updating the previous ones.
There is a microsoft KB 931389! about this problem with status "Confirmed, not fixed".
In my situation with chart and two series collection problem solved by adding a code to delete all seriesCollection before adding new data:
While Sheets(3).ChartObjects(1).Chart.SeriesCollection.Count > 0
Sheets(3).ChartObjects(1).Chart.SeriesCollection(Sheets(3).ChartObjects(1).Chart.SeriesCollection.Coun t).Delete
Wend
It is obviously possible to hide individual data points in an Excel line chart.
Select a data point.
Right click -> Format Data Point...
Select Patterns
Tab Set Line to None
How do you accomplish the same thing in VBA? Intuition tells me there should be a property on the Point object Chart.SeriesCollection(<index>).Points(<index> which deals with this...
Actually if you are going to use SpyJournal's answer it has to be =IF(b2=0,NA(),b2), otherwise Excel just recognizes it as text, not as an 'official' #N/A
"Describe it to the teddy bear" works almost every time...
You have to go to the Border child object of the Point object and set its LineStyle to xlNone.
As a general tip: If you know how to do something in excel, but don't know how to do it in VBA you could just record a macro and look at the recorded VBA-code (works at least most of the time)
There is a Non VBA solution as well that can also be controlled from the VBA code as well.
In excel a data point represented by a #N/A will not display. Thus you can use a formula - the easiest is an IF function - that returns an #N/A as text in the graph data. This data point will then not display which means you don't need to try and manipulate the format for it.
An example is simply to generate your graph data in a table, and then replicate it below with a formula that simply does this
=If(B2=0,"#N/A",B2)
This works when you want to stop line charts from displaying 0 values for example.
This is probably too late to be of assistance but the answer by SpyJournal, whilst easy and elegant,is slightly incorrect as it is necessary to omit the quotes around #N/A
Yes. It doesn't have to have the quotes to be a true not available cell content
but for me N/A still plot as 0 in my charts.
The only way I can get it not to plot is to have the cell blank.
I tried "#N/A" with quotes in Excel 207 and as a result the data point is shown like a zero in the graph. It Works without the quotes.