Comments on: Interactive Charts with Checkboxes and Formulas

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:50:02 +0000

What a great idea! Thanks so much for this. This was a big help to me. I’m an Excel user of moderate skill, but thanks to you my skillset is increasing.

THANKS!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:56:29 +0000

Malcolm – This can be done using VBA, but not through formulas and worksheet tricks. If you set the sheet up so that you can hide a row using an autofilter, then by default data in the hidden cells will be hidden from the chart, but this means that the chart series after the hidden one will assume the formatting of the hidden series.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:59:07 +0000

I have been able to have the legend names appear/disappear if based on the state of the checkboxes; is there a way to also have the legend colors do the same? For example, where you state, “Using a custom number format of “0;;;”, we can suppress the display of any label except positive numbers (and errors).”, can the Series B orange box also disappear?

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:52:37 +0000

Jon,

Thanks a lot. The inclusion of the Sheet Name did the trick when defining the Data Series on the chart.

I will keep the second hint in mind as well for future. Thanks, you’re a legend!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:49:00 +0000

Leonardo -

This is still supported. Two hints:

Make sure you qualify the name with the worksheet name. I find the easiest way to get this right is to create my chart with regular data, so the values range is represented by something like =’Data Sheet’!$B$2:$B$100, and replace everything after the exclamation point with the name.

In Excel 2007, there are problems if the name of the named range begins with “Chart”. For example, you can’t name a range ChartData, but you can name it ChtData.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:41:24 +0000

Hi Jon,

Dynamic Charts are great. I however have a problem currently where the Data Series doesn’t allow me to enter a named range in Excel 2007. I even tried to put it in with VBA but still no joy as well as in the SERIES function. The named ranges are correct, it just seems like Excel 2007 doesn’t support it any more? Does it possibly have something to do with SP’s that I need to install?