Comments on: Dynamic Chart with Multiple Series

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:09:20 +0000

Schatzii - That's a problem. Using named formulas (named ranges) you can dynamically change the number of points in a series. To dynamically change the number of series in a chart, however, cannot be done using formulas. You need to use VBA, perhaps using an approach like that in Dynamic Chart Source Data.

By: Schatzii

Schatzii — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:50:50 +0000

Hi, Very Helpful forum,
could you please also tell us how to dynamically add series to the chart without using macros?

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:17:53 +0000

Jon,

Is there a way to make the charts dynamic without editing each individual series? I have to reproduce 18 charts each with a minimum of 7 series each. As you can see, this would a monstrous undertaking.

Thank you,
Alex

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:36:27 +0000

Paul - If you plotted the data by row and you had expanding rows (i.e., adding more columns), you could adjust the OFFSET formula to count columns and stretch the named range widthwise. You can't use this technique to add series to a chart when a range increases in size. But you can use the VBA technique in Dynamic Chart Source Data to do this.

By: Paul Beck

Paul Beck — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:32:59 +0000

Hi
very useful example – but I have 1 thing I can’t seem to do. I want to reverse the categories – ie have alpha beta etc displayed on the x axis. Column A is still the column I want to dynamically increase. Hope this makes sense.
thanks
Paul

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:24:40 +0000

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.