Comments on: Conditional XY Charts Without VBA

By: Matt Healy

Matt Healy — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:01:33 +0000

I’ve cooked up an interactive spreadsheet that demonstrates some of these and other tricks; in my work I do this a lot but of course I cannot use proprietary data for a public blog so for this example I used some international population data from the US Census website: http://mdhealy.home.sprynet.com/WorldPopulationInteractiveEstimates.xls

Have fun, you can do whatever you want with this but drop me a line (mdhealy at sprynet.com) to let me know what you think.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:13:11 +0000

Frederik -

I used a series with one point, whose coordinates are the X and Y mean values. The point has custom error bars with values calculated to extend to the limits of the plot area.

By: frederikf

frederikf — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:43:29 +0000

How did you add the mean values as a “crosshair” in the center of the x y scatter chart?

By: Jeff Weir

Jeff Weir — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:43:30 +0000

And he often goes on the famous Excel crash diet!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:29:17 +0000

Jon is like Elvis Presley of Excel. The King…

By: Mike Alexander

Mike Alexander — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:09:17 +0000

Nice one Jon. Definately useful here on my side of the world.

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:40:48 +0000

Seperate series without the markers was the key! you are an excel genius!!! thankyou very much for your help!!!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:24:30 +0000

If you can use separate series for formatting of markers, you can also use a separate series without any markers which has the custom labels applied to it.

I hope you’re not applying these labels by hand. Rob Bovey has written an add-in that helps you do this automatically. It’s free from the Applications Professionals web site.

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:20:43 +0000

Thankyou very much for your help Jon, unfortunately, as useful as it may be in the future, for this particular project the data labels for each individual point were needed to feed through, and the gains in having automatic colouring would be lost by assigning labels by hand…