Comments on: Build an Excel Add-In 1 – Basic Routine

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:21:21 +0000

Eijaz – As soon as it is ready, it will be published.

By: eijaz

eijaz — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:17:28 +0000

hi Jon,

Is it possible for you to provide atleast the VBA source code or the complete addin example as a download in the meantime? i need to see the final result and maybe implement some of its functionality to what i have in mind…

Regards.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:54:22 +0000

Eijaz -

I will return to writing very soon. That’s the easiest of the items you mention.

Preventing overlap of labels is very difficult. A number of years ago Andy Pope (http://andypope.info) wrote a routine that would readjust label positions, and it worked okay, but I don’t know if it’s still available.

Connecting labels to datapoints can be done following the (tedious) protocol in Callout Labels with XY Line Segments.

By: eijaz sheikh

eijaz sheikh — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:38:31 +0000

Hi Jon,

can u provide the remaining final chapters (6,7,8,9) for this tutorial?

Also do you have any code example for adjusting datapoints text labels in a chart showing too many datapoints, so that they donot overlap each other and also adjust the label font effectively so that the labels donot spread outside the chart boundary and also show how to add line connectors from datapoints to their corresponding label.

Best regards.

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By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:29:37 +0000

Thanks, Jan Karel, for your links. Be sure to speak up if anything here needs fixing.

By: Jan Karel Pieterse

Jan Karel Pieterse — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:20:42 +0000

For anyone interested, I also have a general series of articles “ready to go”.

On creating add-ins:

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/DistributeMacro00.asp

On deploying an addin:

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/AddinsAndSetupFactory.asp

On updating through internet:

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/UpdateAnAddin.asp

On updating references to UDf’s in Addins:

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/FixLinks2UDF.asp

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:02:27 +0000

Rhys -

That’s what I was thinking, half the width and half the height. I’ve changed the wording to “half the dimensions of the active window”, which is really what I meant.

By: Rhys Kidd

Rhys Kidd — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:21:25 +0000

“This default positioning creates a chart roughly half the size of the active window, roughly centered in the visible region…”

“The output of the program is a chart object half the size of the active window, centered in the window…”

A small correction Jon; by default Excel creates a chart roughly *one quarter* the size of the active window, not half the size of the active window, as the chart is half the height and half the width.