Comments on: Dynamic Chart with Multiple Series http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/dynamic-chart-with-multiple-series/ Peltier Tech Excel Charts and Programming Blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:03:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/dynamic-chart-with-multiple-series/comment-page-1/#comment-25305 Jon Peltier Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:24:40 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2408#comment-25305 Josh - I don't know anything about Mac Excel. I do know Excel 2008 is the Mac version of Excel 2007. Excel 2007 had some major issues with using names as chart data ranges, and the issues didn't get mostly fixed until SP2. To use the SERIES function, you have to select either a series, the plot area, or the chart area. It won't work in a cell or in the Define Names dialog. Josh -

I don’t know anything about Mac Excel. I do know Excel 2008 is the Mac version of Excel 2007. Excel 2007 had some major issues with using names as chart data ranges, and the issues didn’t get mostly fixed until SP2.

To use the SERIES function, you have to select either a series, the plot area, or the chart area. It won’t work in a cell or in the Define Names dialog.

]]> By: Josh http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/dynamic-chart-with-multiple-series/comment-page-1/#comment-25296 Josh Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:47:48 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2408#comment-25296 Hi, Thanks for the very informative site. Do you know of any problems using this technique using Office '08 on Mac? I have downloaded your sample sets and they all look and behave well. I have tried taking these concepts to a test version of my data, but get errors. if I try to use the =SERIES() function I get a "this is not a valid function" error. if I try to edit the chart and use =Xvalues/Yvalues, I can get the X values to work, but the Y values do not and the X legend shows up as test1!Xvalues. Im sure it is something very simple that I am missing. any suggestions? thanks again, JO Hi,
Thanks for the very informative site. Do you know of any problems using this technique using Office ‘08 on Mac?
I have downloaded your sample sets and they all look and behave well. I have tried taking these concepts to a test version of my data, but get errors. if I try to use the =SERIES() function I get a “this is not a valid function” error. if I try to edit the chart and use =Xvalues/Yvalues, I can get the X values to work, but the Y values do not and the X legend shows up as test1!Xvalues.

Im sure it is something very simple that I am missing. any suggestions?
thanks again,
JO

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/dynamic-chart-with-multiple-series/comment-page-1/#comment-20483 Jon Peltier Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:49:06 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2408#comment-20483 Savithri - I like to think that I've actually learned from some of my mistakes, and from those of others. The safeguard you mention is an example of something that has burned me in the past. It's also an example of the maxim that it's hard to program something that is easy to use. Savithri -

I like to think that I’ve actually learned from some of my mistakes, and from those of others. The safeguard you mention is an example of something that has burned me in the past. It’s also an example of the maxim that it’s hard to program something that is easy to use.

]]> By: savithri.v http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/dynamic-chart-with-multiple-series/comment-page-1/#comment-20478 savithri.v Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:27:57 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2408#comment-20478 By far, I feel, the most comprehensive resource on dynamic charting is your article in Techtrax ezine. The approach of using column function as reference to the specific column in which data resides (mentioned in the comment above) has been put into use by you there albeit in a different context The technique of using min & max values to ensure that end date is always > start date in the selected range would save many an embarrassment from nitpickers. Was psychology ancillary to metallurgy in MIT? By far, I feel, the most comprehensive resource on dynamic charting is your article in Techtrax ezine. The approach of using column function as reference to the specific column in which data resides (mentioned in the comment above) has been put into use by you there albeit in a different context

The technique of using min & max values to ensure that end date is always > start date in the selected range would save many an embarrassment from nitpickers.

Was psychology ancillary to metallurgy in MIT?

]]> By: Dan Pitcock http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/dynamic-chart-with-multiple-series/comment-page-1/#comment-20216 Dan Pitcock Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:13:24 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2408#comment-20216 Using your Panel Chart tutorials to build stock charts. Awesome tutorial! Using error bar process for variable height panels. After using the paste special process, when I double click the series and and try to align to primary or secondary axis, the line won't go exactly vertical in line with the axis; therefore, the line won't extend completely across the chart. It does above first panel but then is "short" for each succeeding panel. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Using your Panel Chart tutorials to build stock charts. Awesome tutorial! Using error bar process for variable height panels. After using the paste special process, when I double click the series and and try to align to primary or secondary axis, the line won’t go exactly vertical in line with the axis; therefore, the line won’t extend completely across the chart. It does above first panel but then is “short” for each succeeding panel. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/dynamic-chart-with-multiple-series/comment-page-1/#comment-19591 Jon Peltier Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:02:46 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2408#comment-19591 Gene - Try It is one of the best ways to learn how to do something. If you screw up, there's always Undo, or closing the workbook without saving. The difference between a blog reader and a client is that I'll tell a blog reader to Try It, while I will Try It myself for a client. Gene -

Try It is one of the best ways to learn how to do something. If you screw up, there’s always Undo, or closing the workbook without saving. The difference between a blog reader and a client is that I’ll tell a blog reader to Try It, while I will Try It myself for a client.

]]> By: Gene http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/dynamic-chart-with-multiple-series/comment-page-1/#comment-19581 Gene Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:02:58 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2408#comment-19581 NEVERMIND !!! I posted my question to soon...never thought to try a "Save As" to see what would happen...even renamed the workbook, and excel still managed to change the workbook name reference... Smarter than I am I guess... Thanks again NEVERMIND !!!

I posted my question to soon…never thought to try a “Save As” to see what would happen…even renamed the workbook, and excel still managed to change the workbook name reference…

Smarter than I am I guess…

Thanks again

]]> By: Gene http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/dynamic-chart-with-multiple-series/comment-page-1/#comment-19579 Gene Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:39:39 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2408#comment-19579 First, thanks for all your help...I bought you a cup of coffee this morning...I suspect I will be buying more... Is there anyway to avoid putting the 'workbookname.xls' in the charts series definitions. I am creating templates for my customers to use, and they can rename them to anything... Thanks again... First, thanks for all your help…I bought you a cup of coffee this morning…I suspect I will be buying more…

Is there anyway to avoid putting the ‘workbookname.xls’ in the charts series definitions. I am creating templates for my customers to use, and they can rename them to anything…

Thanks again…

]]> By: Peter H http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/dynamic-chart-with-multiple-series/comment-page-1/#comment-19102 Peter H Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:48:13 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2408#comment-19102 TV - Using the technique of using a Data Table (or List in 03) will overcome this problem as long as you leave a blank row and column around the Table. You can have several Data Tables on the one worksheet to generate several different Charts TV – Using the technique of using a Data Table (or List in 03) will overcome this problem as long as you leave a blank row and column around the Table.
You can have several Data Tables on the one worksheet to generate several different Charts

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/dynamic-chart-with-multiple-series/comment-page-1/#comment-19086 Jon Peltier Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:53:45 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2408#comment-19086 TV - That's correct. You either have to keep the worksheet simple (not a bad policy) or modify the formula. Or you could change the definition of XLabels to: =OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,1,0,MATCH(TRUE,ISBLANK(Sheet1!$A$2:$A$1000),0)-1,1) The Match statement finds the first blank in the range A2:A1000, which I have made arbitrarily large, and ignores any nonblank cells below the first blank. TV – That’s correct. You either have to keep the worksheet simple (not a bad policy) or modify the formula. Or you could change the definition of XLabels to:

=OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,1,0,MATCH(TRUE,ISBLANK(Sheet1!$A$2:$A$1000),0)-1,1)

The Match statement finds the first blank in the range A2:A1000, which I have made arbitrarily large, and ignores any nonblank cells below the first blank.

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