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Better, More Sophisticated Charts & Graphs
Excel does not seem to allow the sophisticated level of charting and graphing
that I need. What add-ins from Microsoft or other companies, if any, should I consider? I'm looking for no-to-low-cost recommendations. I'll pay if I have to, but would rather avoid unnecessary cost if possible. Thx |
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Better, More Sophisticated Charts & Graphs
No offense intended, but is the problem that XL doesn't have the
sophistication, or does the user not know all the tricks? Check out Jon Peltier's site: http://peltiertech.com/ He shows how to create numerous charts that many believe are "impossible", as well as offer several charting add-ins. The other question you may need to ask is what is the story you are trying to convey? Sometimes users get caught up in making "fancier" charts and images that in reality hide/distort the true data. -- Best Regards, Luke M *Remember to click "yes" if this post helped you!* "Jay" wrote: Excel does not seem to allow the sophisticated level of charting and graphing that I need. What add-ins from Microsoft or other companies, if any, should I consider? I'm looking for no-to-low-cost recommendations. I'll pay if I have to, but would rather avoid unnecessary cost if possible. Thx |
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Better, More Sophisticated Charts & Graphs
Jay wrote:
Excel does not seem to allow the sophisticated level of charting and graphing that I need. What add-ins from Microsoft or other companies, if any, should I consider? I'm looking for no-to-low-cost recommendations. I'll pay if I have to, but would rather avoid unnecessary cost if possible. Thx You will have to define what sort of sophisticated graphs you need before the question becomes answerable. Better in what way? Excel can do most forms of XY scientific graph with a bit of effort. XL2007 is *much* slower and the defaults settings are lousy for scientific work, but that can be worked around. Customising graphs unfortunately slows it down even more. XL2003 was a high point. The Excel 2D and 3D data visualisation is rather poor, but packages like IDL which offer just about every possible option are very expensive. I offer an XL add-in that creates embedded greyscale or false colour bitmaps from modest volumes of 2D data. Some people find that useful. You have to describe what it is that you want to do that is missing. Regards, Martin Brown |
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