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Excel - conditional formating on graphs. Change colour on a value
Excel - 2003 or previous.
Conditional formating on cells is useful but I would like to see this on graphs as well. For example in a bar graph chart the series colour can be set either automatically or manually. A single data point can be set manually to a different colour. I would like to change a data point bar by condition / comparing to a value. The application is to 'flag' a data point by colour change if the value exceeds a certain comparison value. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...excel.charting |
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Conditional Charts:
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/...nalChart1.html - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ "Peter Shore" <Peter wrote in message ... Excel - 2003 or previous. Conditional formating on cells is useful but I would like to see this on graphs as well. For example in a bar graph chart the series colour can be set either automatically or manually. A single data point can be set manually to a different colour. I would like to change a data point bar by condition / comparing to a value. The application is to 'flag' a data point by colour change if the value exceeds a certain comparison value. |
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Jon,
I found your website and solution just minutes after posting my question. An ingenious workround! The problem is that this makes the data table quite complex. I would like to build in these formuales and then hide the cells but as soon as you hide data it is no longer available for charts! Another option would be to have the additional series and formulae in an area outside of the print area and then view in 'print preview' The table I have created is to be used by non excel experts so I have to keep it as simple to use as possible and lock or conceal any formula to prevent tampering! "Jon Peltier" wrote: Conditional Charts: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/...nalChart1.html - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ "Peter Shore" <Peter wrote in message ... Excel - 2003 or previous. Conditional formating on cells is useful but I would like to see this on graphs as well. For example in a bar graph chart the series colour can be set either automatically or manually. A single data point can be set manually to a different colour. I would like to change a data point bar by condition / comparing to a value. The application is to 'flag' a data point by colour change if the value exceeds a certain comparison value. |
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Excel - conditional formating on graphs. Change colour on a v
Welcome to my world.
In general it's worth the effort to put your main data on a hidden worksheet, and have the chart and any table in the display area link to this data. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Peter Shore" wrote in message ... Jon, I found your website and solution just minutes after posting my question. An ingenious workround! The problem is that this makes the data table quite complex. I would like to build in these formuales and then hide the cells but as soon as you hide data it is no longer available for charts! Another option would be to have the additional series and formulae in an area outside of the print area and then view in 'print preview' The table I have created is to be used by non excel experts so I have to keep it as simple to use as possible and lock or conceal any formula to prevent tampering! "Jon Peltier" wrote: Conditional Charts: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/...nalChart1.html - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ "Peter Shore" <Peter wrote in message ... Excel - 2003 or previous. Conditional formating on cells is useful but I would like to see this on graphs as well. For example in a bar graph chart the series colour can be set either automatically or manually. A single data point can be set manually to a different colour. I would like to change a data point bar by condition / comparing to a value. The application is to 'flag' a data point by colour change if the value exceeds a certain comparison value. |
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Jon,
Thank you for the help - I tried this last night and I have been able to produce the chart I need. I have also combined Bars with Lines so the threshold values that change the colour are displayed as a line across the chart. Net result is that as a bar graph value meets or exceeds one of the lines it changes colour. NB: Another trick I employed that you may find useful (or you may already know this) is to use a customised background on a bar graph to give me a coloured scale. eg from 0% to 80% green, from 80% to 90% amber and from 90% to 100% red. I started by setting rows and columns to the same size for square cells, filled 8 cells green, 1 amber and 1 red. copied and pasted this into 'paint' to create a bitmap. Then I used the format chart, background - picture and selected the bitmap I had just created. This scaled itself to the chart background and gave me a bar graph with green up to 80% etc. "Jon Peltier" wrote: Welcome to my world. In general it's worth the effort to put your main data on a hidden worksheet, and have the chart and any table in the display area link to this data. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Peter Shore" wrote in message ... Jon, I found your website and solution just minutes after posting my question. An ingenious workround! The problem is that this makes the data table quite complex. I would like to build in these formuales and then hide the cells but as soon as you hide data it is no longer available for charts! Another option would be to have the additional series and formulae in an area outside of the print area and then view in 'print preview' The table I have created is to be used by non excel experts so I have to keep it as simple to use as possible and lock or conceal any formula to prevent tampering! "Jon Peltier" wrote: Conditional Charts: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/...nalChart1.html - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ "Peter Shore" <Peter wrote in message ... Excel - 2003 or previous. Conditional formating on cells is useful but I would like to see this on graphs as well. For example in a bar graph chart the series colour can be set either automatically or manually. A single data point can be set manually to a different colour. I would like to change a data point bar by condition / comparing to a value. The application is to 'flag' a data point by colour change if the value exceeds a certain comparison value. |
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Excel - conditional formating on graphs. Change colour on a v
You've seen my more flexible version, with stacked columns on the primary
axis and a regular column or line series on the secondary. When I get a chance I'll post it as a web page. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Peter Shore" wrote in message ... Jon, Thank you for the help - I tried this last night and I have been able to produce the chart I need. I have also combined Bars with Lines so the threshold values that change the colour are displayed as a line across the chart. Net result is that as a bar graph value meets or exceeds one of the lines it changes colour. NB: Another trick I employed that you may find useful (or you may already know this) is to use a customised background on a bar graph to give me a coloured scale. eg from 0% to 80% green, from 80% to 90% amber and from 90% to 100% red. I started by setting rows and columns to the same size for square cells, filled 8 cells green, 1 amber and 1 red. copied and pasted this into 'paint' to create a bitmap. Then I used the format chart, background - picture and selected the bitmap I had just created. This scaled itself to the chart background and gave me a bar graph with green up to 80% etc. "Jon Peltier" wrote: Welcome to my world. In general it's worth the effort to put your main data on a hidden worksheet, and have the chart and any table in the display area link to this data. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Peter Shore" wrote in message ... Jon, I found your website and solution just minutes after posting my question. An ingenious workround! The problem is that this makes the data table quite complex. I would like to build in these formuales and then hide the cells but as soon as you hide data it is no longer available for charts! Another option would be to have the additional series and formulae in an area outside of the print area and then view in 'print preview' The table I have created is to be used by non excel experts so I have to keep it as simple to use as possible and lock or conceal any formula to prevent tampering! "Jon Peltier" wrote: Conditional Charts: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/...nalChart1.html - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ "Peter Shore" <Peter wrote in message ... Excel - 2003 or previous. Conditional formating on cells is useful but I would like to see this on graphs as well. For example in a bar graph chart the series colour can be set either automatically or manually. A single data point can be set manually to a different colour. I would like to change a data point bar by condition / comparing to a value. The application is to 'flag' a data point by colour change if the value exceeds a certain comparison value. |
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