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The Advanced Chart Utility Is Here
Happy Birthday to Me! As promised last week, the Advanced Edition of the Peltier Tech Chart Utility is here. What’s In It? The new software has all of the goodies of the current product, and nearly...
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Introduction There are many techniques one can use to write information from a running Microsoft Office program. You can save data in a workbook, but this is unwieldy for saving small items, such as...
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Pivot Table Resources
Pivot Table Tutorials There are numerous articles and tutorials about Pivot Tables on the Peltier Tech blog. This is a nearly complete list of Pivot Table posts. Explore Your Data With Pivot Tables...
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Peltier Tech Chart Utilities for Mac Excel – Advanced Edition
It’s nearly finished! In only a month, I’ve converted the Advanced Edition of the Peltier Tech Chart Utility so that it works on a Mac as well as in Windows. I’m pleased that every feature from the...
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Peltier Tech Advanced Chart Utilities for Mac
The Peltier Tech Advanced Chart Utilities for Mac is here. Over the past month a month, I’ve converted the Advanced Edition of the Peltier Tech Chart Utility so that it works on a Mac as well as in...
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Swimmer Plots in Excel
A reader of the Peltier Tech Blog asked me about Swimmer Plots. The first chart below is taken from “Swimmer Plot: Tell a Graphical Story of Your Time to Response Data Using PROC SGPLOT (pdf)“, by...
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Using Pivot Tables in Microsoft Excel
This introduction has been contributed by Debra Dalgleish, Excel MVP. Contextures, Copyright © 2014. All rights reserved. Debra Dalgleish, Excel MVP since 2001, is the author of three books on pivot...
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Pivot Tables in Microsoft Excel: Links
This introduction has been contributed by Debra Dalgleish, Excel MVP. Contextures, Copyright © 2014. All rights reserved. Debra Dalgleish, Excel MVP since 2001, is the author of three books on pivot...
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Error Bar Ideosyncrasy
After using Excel 2007 for a while, getting used to the idea that everything had changed and we weren’t going back to 2003 ever again, I started fooling around with charts and chart elements. I began...
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Chart Events in Microsoft Excel
Chart Events When you use a computer, you continuously interact with objects and programs, through events. An event is anything that happens, such as moving the mouse, clicking on objects, changing...
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Polar Plot in Excel
Polar Plots Microsoft Excel offers a number of circular charts, but none of them is usually a particularly good choice for displaying data. You can search this blog for “pie chart” and see numerous...
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Chart Partial Range Between Variable Endpoints
Plotting Part of a Data Range Excel is pretty handy for collecting, analyzing, and charting lots of data. If you want to plot a subset of your data, you can manually adjust the data range used by the...
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Secondary Axis as Percentage of Target
I haven’t posted in quite a while. I have a few long tutorials that I’m working on, but there hasn’t been enough uninterrupted time to get them done. I’ve also been working on a new edition of my Chart...
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Floating Bars in Excel Charts
Floating bars can be used to plot many types of data sets. (“Bars” in this usage means “bars”, as Excel calls horizontally oriented bars, as well as “columns”, as Excel calls vertically oriented bars.)...
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Select Data to Display in an Excel Chart With Option Buttons
The Problem A member of the MrExcel forum wanted to know about using form controls to select columns from a data table to populate a graph. Essentially he wanted his users to be able to choose between...
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Removing Recent Colors from Microsoft Excel
Recent Colors When you customize a color and apply it to an object in Microsoft Office, the color is stored as part of the Office file, and presented in a “Recent Colors” category on the various colors...
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Stick a Shape to a Point in an Excel Chart
This article was inspired by the Mr Excel forum. A member asked Charts: Any way to make a shape stick to a point in a scatterplot, not an absolute location on the chart? The answer, of course, is Yes,...
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VBA: A Simple Tool to Open a CSV File and Create Chart with Data Specified by...
In a recent Mr Excel post, a member asked how to convert a CSV File to Excel File with Dynamic Graphing Capability. This is a great topic for a tutorial, but too long for a forum answer. Problem...
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VBA: An Advanced Add-in to Open a CSV File and Create Chart with Data...
Introduction This article builds upon a previous post, VBA: A Simple Tool to Open a CSV File and Create Chart with Data Specified by User, which showed how to build the barest possible VBA procedure...
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Apply Custom Data Labels to Charted Points
Often you want to add custom data labels to your chart. The chart below uses labels from a column of data next to the plotted values. When you first add data labels to a chart, Excel decides what to...
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