Charting data
Hello, I need your all's help and would appreciate any advice you can offer. ColA ColB ColC In Sheet1, Row1 I have the column titles of | DATE | OFFICE | REPORT | DATE is the date a specific report is given concerning a specific office. OFFICE is where I specific whom the report concerns (sales, shipping, etc) REPORT is where I write the specifics of the information given. ------------------------------------------------- What I want to do I want one graph to show the total number of reported incidents by associated OFFICE in a percentile formatted Pie Chart. I do not know how to create a graph to look at Sheet1, sort the reports by OFFICE and present that data in a graph. I have read a little about Pivot tables but I do not understand them enough to get the correct answer nor will it update as I enter more lines of data. -- tonystowe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tonystowe's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=33162 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=530170 |
Charting data
hi tonystowe:
not sure if you've already been helped, if not... one potential way to get your the information you're after (non-pivottable version) is to use the CountIf function: 1. in column E of your file, type out the unique names of the offices you have in your list, ie Cell E1 = Office, E2 = Sales, E3 = Shipping, etc 2. setup a dynamic named range so you can count the frequency of the relevant office (so you dont have to keep changing the range definition) Insert - Name - Define - Type 'Office' and under 'Refers to' type '=offset(Sheet1!$B$2,0,0,counta($B:$B),1) 3. in F2, type in the following formula: =countif(office,"="&E2) 4. Copy & Paste that formula down the list of your offices ** that should give the count of how many times each office name was used in the data list** now for your chart... 1. highlight data table with office and count 2. select Pie Chart - Next - Next - in the data labels tab choose Percentage - Finish i think (and hope) that is what you were looking for. please post if ws helpful or you need additional guidance. cheers. "tonystowe" wrote: Hello, I need your all's help and would appreciate any advice you can offer. ColA ColB ColC In Sheet1, Row1 I have the column titles of | DATE | OFFICE | REPORT | DATE is the date a specific report is given concerning a specific office. OFFICE is where I specific whom the report concerns (sales, shipping, etc) REPORT is where I write the specifics of the information given. ------------------------------------------------- What I want to do I want one graph to show the total number of reported incidents by associated OFFICE in a percentile formatted Pie Chart. I do not know how to create a graph to look at Sheet1, sort the reports by OFFICE and present that data in a graph. I have read a little about Pivot tables but I do not understand them enough to get the correct answer nor will it update as I enter more lines of data. -- tonystowe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tonystowe's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=33162 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=530170 |
Charting data
thechilipino, Thanks for your reply and I am trying to input your suggestions into the sheet. If I have any questions I will post here. Again, Thanks Tony -- tonystowe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tonystowe's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=33162 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=530170 |
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