I often run into problem that the width of some cells is determined by the need of some other cell to have its text visible/printable. As in example in the screenshot.
That leaves not enough columns or makes the design very tedious if you want to fit extra information below, above such wide column.
Is there some better way that I am not seeing?
Thanks
As you can see on the following screenshots, the widths of columns changed for all my sheets. Now I'm unable to restore back to normal (regular) width size. I've also had custom widths, but now I need manually increase width for every column. Is there any setting to get back my previous width size?
I have a criteria where the column width and height should be based on Excel Column Height and width
If I go to Excel and Check Row Height - 12.75
Column Width - 28
How to set up the Height and width of the column in INCHES in SSRS REPORT based on above values?
Is Excel measured as UNITS? If so do we have a conversion tool to identify?
Thanks in Advance
Excel measurements are in Points. You can specify SSRS measurements in points e.g. 12.75pt. The doco recommends using whole points.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255234.aspx
The absolute value (default) in Excel for height is in units of points and for column width is in number of characters
i have a tablix where the row consists of two columns. inside each column there is a textbox with two paragraphs. what i want to generate is:
the row height is 1/2 inch. the textbox is bottom aligned. the output should be:
__________________ ___________________
name date
and this is repeated for each name in the datatable. the problem that i am beating my head against the wall over is that the underline will sometimes show up at the bottom of the page and the next line with the words name and date will show up at the top of the next page.
what is the setting that will guarrantee that the underline and the text below it will never break over a page
Check the KeepTogether setting first. If that doesn't help, place them both in a rectangle together. Make sure you drag them onto the rectangle for them to be associated with it.
I have a simple line chart that I've added data labels to:
But I don't want all those labels. I only want the top and bottom 10% (arbitrary number) values to be shown. For example, in the picture I'd only want the labels for 51, 54, 57, 61, 66, 68, 74 to show. I can manually delete the other labels but the chart data changes dynamically over time. Is there a method for accomplishing this? The text in those labels is a placeholder right now and will eventually be 6-10 characters long, at which point having all those labels will just be a complete mess.
I'm not real confident in VBA so I'd only like to fall back on that as a last resort.
Edit: Thanks to Scott for his insightful answer. It works perfectly with a manually populated Data Labels column. However, some jury rigging is needed if one wants to populate it dynamically. I used the following formula to populate it:
=IF(OR(O1=LARGE($O$1:$O$30,1),O1=LARGE($O$1:$O$30,2),O1=LARGE($O$1:$O$30,3)),O1,"")
Basically, it copies cell values from column O to column P if the value in O is the top 1st, 2nd, or 3rd value in the list. If it's not any of those, it leaves the cell blank. But even if a cell is visually blank, Excel's charting functions interprets the value as 0 if there is a formula in the cell. This means the entire bottom of the graph has repeated data labels of "0%". To solve this I set the value of the FALSE parameter as a negative number and then changed the minimum value on the graph from automatic to 0. This leaves the unfit values below the bottom of the chart, out of visible range.
AHA!
Just when I thought there was no non-VBA solution other than picture links, my ingenuity came through :)
Here is what you can do, in stages:
1) Create a data set next to your original series column with only the values you want labels for (again, this can be formula driven to only select the top / bottom n values). See column D below.
2) Add this data series to the chart and show the data labels.
3) Set the line color to No Line, so that it does not appear!
4) Volia! See Below!