Comments on: Error Bars in Excel 2007 Charts

By: Mahmood

Mahmood — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:03:10 +0000

Thanks so much Jon for this great post.
A friend of mine just needed the error bar utility disparately and when I gave it to him, he was just so happy. With his big job, this error bar utility saved him a few days of work.

Many thanks again,

Mahmood

By: Mahmood

Mahmood — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:01:36 +0000

Thanks so much Jon for this great post.
A friend of mine just needed the error bar utility disparately.

Many thanks again,

Mahmood

By: Fink Nadine

Fink Nadine — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:49:13 +0000

Dear Jon, that is so kind of you! many thanks. and excuse my late response. I was traveling and am back in the us now.

I will send my file.

warm regards
nadine

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:56:22 +0000

Hi Nadine -

I don’t know whether my utility will run on a Mac, I really have no way to try it out. You should be able to download it, unless there are security settings blocking it.

Send me your file, and I’ll try to work out a set of procedures for you to follow. jonpeltier at-sign gmail dot com

By: Fink Nadine

Fink Nadine — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:27:25 +0000

Dear Jon,

I just followed your instructions and it is what I had been doing. my problem is that I have 3 measure time points (repeated measures) in one figure and different standard errors for each measure point.
and excel 2008 keeps adding the same standard errors to each of the three measure time points. is there a possibility?
I couldn’t download your utility. does it work with snow leopard?

many thanks and kind regards
Nadine

By: Fink Nadine

Fink Nadine — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:11:59 +0000

Dear Jon,

many thanks. I am very grateful. I will try it today!
have a nice weekend
Nadine

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:30:02 +0000

Nadine -

When you did this before, you needed to use custom error values taken from a range of cells. While formatting the error bars, you have to select the Custom radio button under Error Amount, then click on Specify Amount, then select ranges in the tiny dialog that appears.

Or you could use my utility to make selecting the ranges much easier.

By: Fink Nadine

Fink Nadine — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:38:04 +0000

Hi Jon,

I follow all the instructions, my question:

I have a repeated measures design and therefore have 3 measure time points. I therefore have three different standard error values for T1, T2, T3. Excel (2008) only lets me define one standard error value (pos./neg.) correct?

is there a link I am missing? before with Office 2004 I could do this. now with snow leopard and having to use Office 2008 I am a complete novice and can’t figure it out.

many thanks for your help
Nadine

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:50:10 +0000

Bruce sent me his workbook. It’s a large workbook, with a number of sheets, each with a number of charts, and the charts have custom error bars linked to the parent worksheet.

I copied a few sheets within the workbook, so “Sheet1″ for example became “Sheet1 (2)”. In Excel 2003 SP3 and Excel 2007 SP2, charts on “Sheet1 (2)” had custom error bars that pointed to ranges on “Sheet1 (2)”. In the original release version of Excel 2007, the custom error bars on “Sheet1 (2)” pointed at “Sheet1″ instead. I don’t know whether this problem was corrected in SP1, but it does work in SP2.

Upgrading to SP2 will enable this functionality.

By: Bruce Keefe

Bruce Keefe — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:22:00 +0000

Hi Jon,

Thanks for your reply. The error bar calculations are computed individually in the same spreadsheet containing the chart.

If you are willing I’d be happy to send you a copy of the spreadsheet so that you could take a look yourself. Perhaps there is something simple that I am missing?

Bruce