I want to create map shapes in Excel to analysing Sales and Stocks in our restaurants in NYC.
I can create own shape in Photoshop, but i don't know how to export own shapes from Photoshop to Excel.
Do you have any idea how to create map shapes in excel (ex: map of nyc by adm. district)?
From Photoshop you can save a file in .jpeg format. This can easily be imported into Excel, reshaped, and positioned as you desire.
Related
I don't really know how to express what I'm looking for, so I'll give a bit of context:
I have and add-in for Excel and PowerPoint that allows the user to insert shapes into the worksheet/slide with specific sizes, colors and values to form a stylized chart. I don't use the integrated charts because my company needs some weird styles and parameters that I can only replicate using shapes.
The problem is that once the shapes are in the worksheet/slide the user cannot go back to the add-in and change the chart values or series. For example, a user can't redefine the values and instead of $50 put $90 and update automatically the chart (as with the Office charts that we all know and love).
So what I thought as a solution is to have a 'background text file' or something like that with a dictionary of the charts and the shapes that are part of it; also the values and other characteristics like the x and y axis values. This way, when the user goes back to the add-in, he/she can retreive all the info from the original chart and change values, parameters or whatever is neeeded -- using the shapes' dictionary.
In essence, I want to program something like Think-cell but in Visual Basic.
Any suggestion is very welcomed!
there is an excel file which contains chart number, segment number and their respective colors. So i want to change the color of reports on Pentaho Report Designer through the excel file means each segment of pie chart gets the color mentioned in excel file.
There is a Chart Property called Series Color where you can define the colors as per your need.
Is it possible to insert shape and add the shape to already existing picture inserted from a file like PNG, JPG, GIF. I am looking for merging the shape and the picture in ONE image, not just grouping them together.
Alternatively is there a way to group two objects in Excel permanently so that no ungrouping is possible?
It is not possible to draw images in Excel. You can only import images.
In Powerpoint (15.13.1 for Mac OS X) I can find the option to crop an image to a shape but I can't find how to crop it to text. Can anyone enlighten me please ?
There's PowerPoint 2010, 2013 and 2016 but no 2015. Which do you have?
There's no way I know to crop a picture to text, but you can fake it. In (as I recall) PPT 2013 or maybe 2010 and later you can do this:
Insert a picture and send it behind the text you want to fill with a picture.
Select the picture then hold down Ctrl while you click the text to select it too. It has to be done in this order or it won't work.
Under Drawing Tools, the Format tab, Insert Shapes group, click Merge Shapes and choose Intersect.
Another trick is to intersect the text with a plain rectangle. This converts the text to a shape that can be filled with a picture.
I made a diagram to show unique columns with several colors in each, as shown in the picture.
I have hundreds of that to make and I have no idea about how to do that.
I would like to know if it's possible to extract each color bar separately and copy them under "Icons". I am not sure if the word "extract" is the correct term, but I would like to display a raw-image of that color bar.
Maybe a formula?
I am able to use Office Excel and Libreoffice Calc.
Thank you so much.
These are instructions to do this manually, but this would be an ideal project to apply VBA and automate these tasks.
The idea is to create each category of stacked bar as its own individual chart, which can then be exported or copied to an image file.
This is based on the "spark lines" concept, which is small, eye-catching graphics embedded within the text of a document, as opposed to large graphics. MS added some sparklines functionality in recent versions of Office apps, and although MS "spark lines" doesn't support stacked bar chart type, the same thing can still be accomplished with a little work.
Step 1: Select one row of the data and do Insert Chart, stacked bar.
Step 2: Select data and Switch Rows & Columns.
Step 3: Delete the gridlines, axes, chart border, etc., .
Step 4: Expand the Plot Area so that it covers the entire Chart Area, and format the data series to 0% gap width.
Step 5: Apply your colors to each point in the series.
Step 6: Resize the chart to fit on a cell.
Finally now that you have created some ChartObjects you can manipulate them. ChartObjects can be Exported as image files, or copy/paste-special as images, bmp, or enhanced metafiles, etc.