I've got a scatter chart in an SSRS report and a requiremetn to label each quadrant of the chart.
When I drop a text box with the label of each quadrant and get it to look just how I want it in the designer all seems well.
But when the report is run the flow based layout of the report put the text boxs vertically under need the scatter chart.
How do I get the text boxes to remain on top of the chart?
In designer
Rendered report
Consider adding the Quadrant labels as a chart title instead of a textbox. You will need to enable the CustomPosition property of the chart title to True in order to place the titles in the corners.
I am unable to post an image without some "reputation" but I was able to add the quadrant titles successfully.
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I am using vba to create a pivot chart that is then filtered for the top 10 categories. For the legend we would like to include those categories NOT in the pie chart. I am able to create a list of the items that are not included in the pie chart, but I haven't figured out how to add them to the legend. I tried setting the XValues alone but that didn't work. Is it possible to create a custom legend? I wouldn't need the color boxes but I would like to add the number and and percent similar to those that are displayed for the top 10 categories in the pie chart.
I'd like to create an excel dashboard where the user selects which series are plotted based on a drop down menu. The series for the chart is derived as follows:
=IF(J$6="Plot",100 * D8/D$108,"")
etc.
If I turn off "Plot" the series disappears form the chart but an empty line persists in the legend. I'd like the legend to include only the series I have selected.
Thank you in advance,
Tikhon
I am working with a pie chart whose data labels are added using the best fit property. Most of those labels are placed by Excel inside the pie, but some of them are placed outside.
Because of some series colors are so strong, the data labels had to be defined as white. Of course, the labels placed outside the pie wont be visible if I don't manually change their color (to black, for instance)
What I am trying to do is to conditionally change the label's color according to where Excel placed it (white inside the pie, black outside it), as in the following image:
I have been searching for a solution, but it seems that nobody had a similar problem.
Does anyone know if Excel allows this or does someone know a trick to bypass it?
There is a way to do this in Excel.
When you click on the chart, and go to Layout under Chart Tools.
Once there, go to Data Labels.
When you click on that, it will display a drop-down menu. At the bottom of the menu, click on More Data Label Options.
It will pull up a new window. On the sidebar of the new window, click on Number.
Then, under Category click on Custom.
In the textbox shown under Format Code, type in [Black][<0.05]0%;[White][>=0.05]0%
Click Add.
It should format the numbers outside the pie chart in your example black, and the numbers inside the pie white. If you had different data, you could format it the same, but you would have to change the number in the brackets after the color to the number one higher than number outside of the pie. It would be like this: [Black][<(number one higher than number outside of the pie)]0%;[White][>=(number one higher than number outside of the pie)]0%
Screenshot of Pie Chart Formatting
Source:
http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/01/29/colors-in-excel-chart-labels-trick/
I would like to know how can I make it so that a chart doesn't show the data point value on hover.
The chart in question plots a range with formulas so I can toggle all the series, and I need the solution to be on the file so that no one can see the actual values under the chart.
I am trying to make a stacked 100% excel chart where the fill color of each series is the same, and borders (of a different color) only on the top of the box. If I choose to edit the border, the only option I see is one that allows me to make the entire border for the series; i.e top, bottom and on the sides. Can anyone please suggest how I can have border only on the top?
Thanks much!
You can't selectively format the edges of a bar in an Excel chart.
You could add another series with a small value (e.g. .1% of the total). This won't have a fillable rectangle, but it will still have a border that you can format.