Comments on: Preliminary Data Exploration with Excel Pivot Tables http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/preliminary-data-exploration-with-excel-pivot-tables/ Peltier Tech Excel Charts and Programming Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:37:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Mathias http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/preliminary-data-exploration-with-excel-pivot-tables/comment-page-1/#comment-17398 Mathias Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:44:52 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2318#comment-17398 Jon, Thank you for the reply. I have to agree with you, removing the line by hand for individual points is tedious - and to automate the process through VBA, I would have to add some convention to the input data, which is brittle and doesn't seem much of an improvement over simply inserting rows! As an aside, this made me realize how the line chart was constructed, object-wise, with every point "owning" the line that connects it to the previous point, the first point having no line (but the UI to edit the parameters of that phantom line :) ). Jon,

Thank you for the reply. I have to agree with you, removing the line by hand for individual points is tedious – and to automate the process through VBA, I would have to add some convention to the input data, which is brittle and doesn’t seem much of an improvement over simply inserting rows!

As an aside, this made me realize how the line chart was constructed, object-wise, with every point “owning” the line that connects it to the previous point, the first point having no line (but the UI to edit the parameters of that phantom line :) ).

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/preliminary-data-exploration-with-excel-pivot-tables/comment-page-1/#comment-17259 Jon Peltier Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:23:24 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2318#comment-17259 Mathias - You can format a series point-by-point. This allows you to format certain points not to have the connecting line. Very tedious, and when the pivot table refreshes, you risk losing and having to reproduce this formatting. Mathias -

You can format a series point-by-point. This allows you to format certain points not to have the connecting line. Very tedious, and when the pivot table refreshes, you risk losing and having to reproduce this formatting.

]]> By: Mathias http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/preliminary-data-exploration-with-excel-pivot-tables/comment-page-1/#comment-17256 Mathias Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:40:04 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=2318#comment-17256 Good post, which provided me with a moment of enlightenment, even if it's on a trivial point. I had to generate charts displaying the impact of multiple factors, broken down by level, on a metric of interest, and I never thought of inserting a blank row between the factors, to "disconnect" the chart between factors. I was never happy with my chart, and this is a great solution. Is there any way to achieve the same disconnectedness without inserting blank rows, besides creating one series for each attribute? Mathias Good post, which provided me with a moment of enlightenment, even if it’s on a trivial point. I had to generate charts displaying the impact of multiple factors, broken down by level, on a metric of interest, and I never thought of inserting a blank row between the factors, to “disconnect” the chart between factors. I was never happy with my chart, and this is a great solution.
Is there any way to achieve the same disconnectedness without inserting blank rows, besides creating one series for each attribute?

Mathias

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