A reader named Julie has a regular chart that is linked to a pivot table. When the pivot table is pivoted or updated, it may have different numbers of rows and columns, and the chart must be updated manually. Julie asked whether a procedure could be developed to update the chart automatically.
I’ve done this in [...]

Sometimes it’s desirable to make a regular chart from a pivot table, but Excel makes it difficult. If your active cell is in a pivot table, inserting a chart automatically inserts a pivot chart. Defining a source data range that intersects a pivot table automatically converts the chart into a pivot table. And once a [...]

You can add flexibility to your data analysis by grouping variables. For example, you may have daily sales figures that fluctuate greatly in value, some days having no sales at all, some days with small values, and some with large values. A plot of this data is very noisy, and it’s hard to see any [...]

In Using Pivot Table Data for a Chart with a Dual Category Axis, I showed how to make a Chart with a Dual Category Axis using a pivot table to properly arrange the source data. I generally prefer using a regular chart, because pivot charts are pretty inflexible when it comes to formatting. Unfortunately, a [...]

In Using Pivot Table Data for a Chart with a Dual Category Axis, I showed how to make a Chart with a Dual Category Axis using a pivot table to properly arrange the source data. I generally prefer using a regular chart, because pivot charts are pretty inflexible when it comes to formatting. Unfortunately, a [...]

Tony commented on the previous post, Chart with a Dual Category Axis, asking whether I’d use a pareto chart for this data. I commented that it almost was a pareto chart, since at least within each category the data is sorted from high to low. Then I got to thinking, if I put my data [...]