How To Cook A Delicious Dynamic Chart That Will Have Your Boss Drool

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How to cook a delicious dynamic chart that will have your boss drool
Posted on August 31st, 2010 in Charts and Graphs , Featured - 109 comments
Dynamic charts are like my favorite food, Mangoes. They tempt, tease and taste awesomely. In this post, we are going to learn how to create a dynamic chart using check boxes and formulas. Are you ready for some excel chart cooking?
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What our mouth-watering chart will look like when its done:
Ingredients:
Some data, Few check-boxes, IF formula and a dash of espresso
Instructions for preparation:

1. First get your data. Make sure its clean and arranged neatly, like below, in the range B4:E11.
2. Since our data has 3 series (sales, profits and number of customers), we will take 3 check boxes and place them somewhere on our worksheet. Insert check boxes from developer ribbon / forms tool bar (tip: show developer ribbon in
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excel 2007)
3. Now, we want the check boxes to tell whether to show or hide a particular series of data in the chart. So, link each check box to one cell, say C13, D13 and E13.
4. We will use IF formula to roast our data based on what the check boxes say. So, create a similar table and load it with IF formulas like this: =IF(C$13,C4,NA())
5. Finally, make a chart with the data in this new table you created. 6. Put everything together and neatly arrange with your favorite colors and labels. 7. Serve hot and see your boss drool.
Download the prepared chart:

You can download FREE dynamic chart template and serve it instantly.
More recipes on dynamic charts:

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Do you use dynamic charts?

I like dynamic charts a lot. They provide a wealth of information in a compact form. I use them whenever possible, especially in dashboards and analytical outputs. What about you? Do you use dynamic charts often? What techniques do you use when implementing dynamic charts? Share your experience and tips using comments.
109 Responses to How to cook a delicious dynamic chart that will have your boss drool
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Subhash says: August 31, 2010 at 9:48 am Nice and simple. Small suggestion: Sales and margins share a similar scale (or should share). However number of customers are of completely different order of magnitude. So, make the line chart use a Secondary Y-axis instead of sharing it with sales and profits. Subhash Reply Chandoo says: August 31, 2010 at 3:39 pm @Subhash.. agree. The number of customers should be on a secondary axis for clarity. Reply
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Flavio says: August 31, 2010 at 11:47 am A very simple and very good idea. I liked it a lot. Thanks for sharing. Flavio Reply
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Tom says: August 31, 2010 at 1:45 pm Nice simple technique. Reply
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Ryan says: August 31, 2010 at 2:51 pm Awesome, just changed my current KPI reporting format to this style of dynamic chart for a customer. For Excel newbies this is an impressive tool but simple for them to use as well. Reply
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ruve1k says: August 31, 2010 at 5:48 pm Hey Chandoo, nice functionality in chart. Thats pretty sneaky how you modified the color of the text in the check boxes? You really had me scratching my head for a while. Reply
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Sandy says: August 31, 2010 at 8:57 pm Hi Chandoo, Im fairly new here and an amateur to boot so please bear with any stupid questions.
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I found this article very interesting and am trying to work my way through making the chart myself from scratch (I learn a lot this way!) I am completely stumped on how you got the font colors in the checkboxes to change. Can you point me to where you have (possibly) explained this in a different article? Much thanks! Reply 7. Chandoo says: September 1, 2010 at 1:41 am @Sandy: Welcome to Chandoo.org. There is nothing like a stupid question. By asking, you have actually proved the opposite I have removed the text from checkboxes completely and then added text box (insert ribbon) and colored it. To make the clicks work, I just re-sized checkboxes width to overlap the text box. Reply 8. Sandy says: September 1, 2010 at 1:58 am Tricky! Thanks for the explanation that explains it! Reply 9. Romaric says: September 1, 2010 at 7:24 am As many other posts about dashboards analytics that I read with pleasure, thanks for sharing this simple but efficient excel tip! Reply 10. BigFan says: September 1, 2010 at 8:43 am While the Chart works well, adding a legend is tricky. Unable to remove say no. of customers once unchecked. Reply 11. Bernard Lebelle says: September 1, 2010 at 3:04 pm Great work Chando, another proof that clever design can deliver great impact with limite resources Reply 12. Larph says: September 1, 2010 at 6:44 pm Your charts are simple but easy to read Ive learned a lot about designing information from just reading your posts let alone doing the tutorials. Thank you, Chandoo. Reply
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David says: September 2, 2010 at 5:34 am Hi Chandoo, Great tip! If one wanted to hide the reference table (or the similar table), what is the best way to do it? Move the graph to a separate tab? Hide the similar table? Thanks for your great work. David Reply
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greg says: September 2, 2010 at 5:48 pm Nice trick. My boss would be confused as to the chart being a stacked or a100% overlapping bar chart. I almost never use 100% overlapping because of this confusion. Though by toggling it is so obvious that they are not stacked, but print out a graph with profit and sales and the confusion would be there. Keep up the excellent work! Reply
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Pankaj Verma says: September 3, 2010 at 10:37 am Simple and Brilliant. I was just thinking of making it for one of my presentations and here I got it, readymade!!!!!!!. Served hot for supper.. Delicious indeedBurp!!!!!!!!!!!!! Regards, Pankaj Verma Reply
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Malachi says: September 3, 2010 at 3:52 pm Apologies for asking what Im sure is a very basic question, but its something I cant quite get a handle on. How exactly do you create the type of combined column design in this example? ie with the sales & profit columns appearing together. Is it a stacked column chart? I use Excel 2003 and I cant seem to match this design. Many thanks. Reply
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vlad says: September 4, 2010 at 10:08 pm so simple and yet so cool. Reply
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ghis says: September 5, 2010 at 12:02 pm Hi Chandoo, Thx for the tip, I was a the moment building the same kind of graphics but didnt think to use the check boxes. Its clever. However the linked cell (dont know the name in the english Excel version) has to use the True/False format. How can we change that ? I used a simple y/n (yes/no)format in front of a group of lines I want to hide or not. It is much more simple to use. But I think the Tru/Falese format is automatically implemented in Excel and we cant use something else except some trick involving macro ; and I cant use it since I have to run the file on both Mac and PC. I hop Im wrong Bye, G. Reply
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Kedar says: September 7, 2010 at 8:44 am I use dynamic charts a lot. I usually use a lot of named ranges. Earlier I used to use offset to create xValues but now a days I learnt the technique of using index instead of offset (as suggested by a lot of mvps offset should be avoided wherever possible.) However to import data from various worksheets I use offset. The various formulas I use are as follows to get an idea. e.g. The chart will have its own data worksheet. The data for various departments may be stored on different worksheets and pulled as per the dropdown selection. 1. To pull data on the data worksheet =indirect(address(row(),column(),,,$A$1)) where A1 contains the name of the worksheet. 2. xValues = Index(Data!$D$1:$D$10,A1):index(data$!D$1:$d$10,A2) where a1 and A2 contain the indexes of selected months from the dropdown. 3. yValues1 = Offset(xvalues,0,A4), yValues2 =Offset(xValues,0,A5) etc.. again this comes from the categories you select. May be a bit complex but one chart fits all scenarios Reply
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martin says: September 7, 2010 at 12:19 pm Hi Chandoo Congrats on your fantastic site. Ive the same query as Malachi. How can you create the overlapping column design that you have here in Excel 2003? I thought I was pretty good at Excel until I tried this. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks Reply
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Hui... says: September 7, 2010 at 1:45 pm
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@ Martin, Malachi To create the overlapping chart, setup a chart with 2 Series Right Click on one of the series and select Format Data Series On the Series Options Tab, change the Series Overlap slider to 100% Overlap Set the gap width to suit Reply 22. Hui... says: September 7, 2010 at 1:47 pm @ Martin, Malachi Thats a Clustered Column chart by the way. Reply 23. Hui... says: September 7, 2010 at 1:50 pm @ Martin, Malachi In Excel 2003 To create the overlapping chart, setup a chart with 2 Series and create a Clustered Column chart Right Click on one of the series and select Format Data Series On the Options Tab, change the Overlap slider to 100% Overlap Set the gap width to suit Reply 24. martin says: September 7, 2010 at 4:17 pm Thanks Hui. Really appreciate that. It worked a treat. Reply 25. LDAllen says: September 12, 2010 at 5:40 am Hello, I tried copying the dynamic chart in excel 2003 by changing input data but the sheet is protected. can you walk me through creating a new list? Thanks! Reply 26. Chandoo says: September 16, 2010 at 2:17 am @LDAllen I do not think the sheet is protected. Can you pls. clarify? Reply 27. Anne says: September 23, 2010 at 8:02 am Hi Chandoo, love this chart. I managed all the way to get it set up in excel, but how do I get it into powerpoint with the option that the check boxes are still working? Thanks so much Anne
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Reply 28. Chandoo says: September 24, 2010 at 1:33 am @Anne Thank you Powerpoint is another beast. I do not any reasonable way to port this chart in to ppt with all the dynamism. You should try embedding the whole workbook in to ppt. That way, during the presentation, you can double click on the excel object to open the chart from excel directly and show the interactivity. Reply 29. Anne says: September 24, 2010 at 11:23 am Thanks, will give it a tryHappy birthday to the twins Reply 30. KateB says: October 1, 2010 at 4:42 pm I just wanted to share that I used the ideas in this dynamic chart to create a comparison chart for our commissioning dept. There are 17 PCTs (health groups) in our region, so I have set up 2 charts monthly and cumulative so that they can choose up to 3 PCTs to chart and compare. They love it and think Im fantastic!! Thank you Chandoo. I am enrolled in the latest school and hope I can wow them with more innovative ideas! Reply 31. Chandoo says: October 2, 2010 at 12:39 am @KateB: Wow, I am so happy for you. Welcome to the class btw. Reply 32. Andrea says: October 5, 2010 at 7:14 pm Love it! You rock! I just used it for a budget analysis Im building, worked like a charm. Reply 33. Jignesh Mankad says: October 16, 2010 at 11:47 am Hi dear, I was going through the dynamic chart, till point #2 I could understand but please guide me asto how can we link a checkbox to a perticular cell (point#3) Reply 34. KateB says: October 17, 2010 at 9:08 pm Hi Jignesh, after youve added the check box, right click it and go to properties. then either type in the cell reference, or click the box at the end and click on the link cell. Does that make sense? Reply
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Jignesh Mankad says: October 18, 2010 at 5:50 am GreatThanks KateB Reply it worked.
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Chandoo says: October 19, 2010 at 5:30 am @KateB: Donut for you Reply
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KateB says: October 19, 2010 at 9:21 pm Thanks guys! Reply
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Prashanth says: November 8, 2010 at 8:45 am Hi Kedar Can you send me a sample excel sheet with the formula you have mentioned above Reply
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Ahmed says: November 22, 2010 at 7:02 pm Thanks a ton Chandoo, had a presentation w/ my CRO this morning and used this technique to track large deals for the last 4 quarters, and yes you were right, they were drooling over it.. Keep on doing the good work, really appreciate it.. Reply
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Chris says: December 21, 2010 at 4:40 pm Hi, Chandoo. Thank you for this tip its incredible! Im using this with a clustered column chart. My series are fiscal years 2006-2010, with the months along the horizontal axis. I was wondering if theres a way to eliminate the gaps for years that have been de-selected for example, I may want to compare data from FY 2006 and FY 2010, and Id like to see these next to each other in the chart; however, when I de-select FYs 2007. 2008, and 2009, Im left with a chart that has a sizable gap between the two selected series. Using Auto Filter works, but its not dynamic when I re-select a fiscal year (say I now want to show 2006, 2008, and 2010, so I re-select 2008), I have to re-select the year in the Auto Filters drop-down boxes. Is there a way in Excel 2007 to have these rows hide and unhide automatically when you select/de-select a check box? Thanks! Chris Reply
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Swap says: December 23, 2010 at 5:29 am
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Hi Chandoo, The Idea is classic. But pls tell me, from where you picked this chart i.e. Standard types or Custom types. I am using office 2003. Thanx in advance Swap Reply 42. Hui... says: December 23, 2010 at 10:17 am The chart types are standard types, they may have custom colors The techniques used are available in all versions of Excel Reply 43. Swap says: December 24, 2010 at 4:39 am I mean in the above exmple the one which is used, overlapping bar-chart with line. What is the name of the type? Reply 44. 220 Excel Tips, Tutorials, Templates & Resources for You | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: January 20, 2011 at 9:24 am [...] Dynamic Chart with Checkboxes Excel Tutorial & Free Template [...] Reply 45. becha says: January 26, 2011 at 7:49 pm Hi Kedar Can you upload a sample excel sheet with the formula you mentioned above? Reply 46. Kedar says: January 28, 2011 at 5:54 am Re : Becha, Prashant.. I will try to mail the example to Chandoo.. Hope he will publish it somewhere Reply 47. riby says: January 29, 2011 at 5:02 am i chandoo, can u help me with a VBA to extract data from a URL and dump in a set file location within a give time schedule. tanks Reply 48. shrey says:
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February 3, 2011 at 11:03 am Hey chandoo,I work for Nabler Web Solutions and i was thinking of using the same in my next report. I have tried making this dynamic chart, but i am not getting any success in that. Every time i try to make it the bars in my chart changes. Can you tell me how have you keep the length of those bars fixed. Reply Chandoo says: February 4, 2011 at 1:40 am @Shrey Welcome to Chandoo.org, thanks for your comments. you need to set axis min and max to fixed values. Select vertical axis, goto format axis (right click) and then choose fixed for min and max of axis and enter 0 and a large value (based on your data). This should do the trick. Reply 49. Vetrina says: February 4, 2011 at 10:16 pm I am new to your website and I love excel but get very discouraged when it comes to using formalas and manipulating different functions. But this one was very beginner friendly. Now, I am excited to learn more. Thank you! Reply 50. Hui... says: February 5, 2011 at 1:51 am @Vetrina Dont be discouraged by formulas If you understand that 20+10=30 Then a Cell will have =20+10 and display 30 And you can link cells =B2+B3 will simply take the values from B2 and B3 and add them eg: =Sum(20, 10) will add up 20 & 10 and return 30 =Sum(B2, B3) will take the values from B2 and B3 and add them =Sum (B2:B10) will take the values from the range B2:B10 and add them Other formulas keep working on the exact same principle Reply 51. Abhishek Sinha says: February 6, 2011 at 7:46 pm Hi Chandoo, Dynamic charts are awesome! But, is there any way to add individual data labels to this chart? I have created three histograms and three line graphs, but when I am adding a data label, excel is showing #N/A at the bottom which is not looking good. So is there any way to have individual data labels ? Thanks! Reply 52. Arlene says:
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February 24, 2011 at 2:01 am so cool!! thanks Reply 53. Customer Service Dashboard using Excel - Download Template, Learn how to crete it | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: March 22, 2011 at 11:47 am [...] Interactive chart with check boxes to show / hide information. [Related tip] [...] Reply 54. Swapnil says: April 4, 2011 at 6:00 am Thanks for sharing it. Very simple and easy to understand. I used this technique and it was very impressive. One question, is there any option by which we can use dynamic chart in ppt?? Also had the same doubt that Abhishek Sinha asked about the data labels.. Reply 55. Pratik Mehta says: April 13, 2011 at 7:20 am Chandoo, I love this website. It was suggested to me by some of my MBA classmates and it is simply fantastic. I have made it a point to go through a new item on your blog everyday and learn a new item on Excel. I am the go to guy for Excel for my class and I am sure this will make me AWESOMER.. thanks again -PM Reply 56. Houston Ima says: April 14, 2011 at 4:32 pm I just created these charts 100% because of this site, and although no one has told me yet, I am totally a rock star for doing this (and I even impressed my husband!). Im a Business Analyst at a hospital and this has taken my work to a whole new level.thanks so much for this blog and these wonderful posts and comments! (although I could use a bit more detail in the implementation details since Im not as technically capable as others are on this site) Reply 57. Yesica says: April 29, 2011 at 9:43 pm Hello All, I am so happy to have found this site! Thank you Chandoo. I have a question: My data has daily prices, for multiple years, of different metals. I have recreated the dynamic chart explained above, but now Id like to be able to select specific year, month, or number of days, and have the charts update instantly. Please help! Thank you. Reply 58. vanita singh says: May 25, 2011 at 3:14 pm
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This was very helpful.It helped me in presenting my data in a nice way in office.At the end of the meeting,people were impressed with my chart.Thanks. Reply 59. Sales Analysis Charts in Excel - 78 Alternatives | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: June 30, 2011 at 8:49 am [...] Using form controls Dynamic Charts with Check Boxes [...] Reply 60. Baba says: June 30, 2011 at 5:13 pm I am adding a data label, excel is showing #N/A at the bottom which is not looking good. So is there any way to have individual data labels ? Reply 61. Rajesh Joshi says: July 8, 2011 at 3:09 pm I am facing the same issue as well Reply 62. Dashboards says: July 28, 2011 at 7:51 am Its awesome info you provided and i checked the excel file after downloading. Will be a regular visitor in your site from now. Reply 63. CARiD says: August 16, 2011 at 8:49 am I use Excel on a day to day basis; so I find your tips very valuable. The tutorial is so easy to follow and the outcome is fantastic. I had a great time trying it out. Thanks for these tips; I will definitely apply the things I learned from your site to make awesome and professional looking report. Reply 64. Dave-O says: August 30, 2011 at 1:16 am Chandoo, Thank you for giving us this project and to all of the others who explained the extra steps involved (@Hui.. & @KateB). I will surely amaze my colleagues as soon as I get a chance to use this technique at work! Just to add a little help for any who come after me: The check boxes will not work unless you are out of Design Mode in Excel2010. That took me a few minutes to figure out. Reply 65. Thowfeek says: September 20, 2011 at 4:48 pm
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http://chandoo.org/wp/2010/08/31/dynamic-chart-with-check-boxes/ Hi its possible add more sales volume its possible add more sales item like product name ( eg: iron , steel, copper, ) Thanks Thowfeek M Reply 66. Thowfeek says: September 22, 2011 at 1:59 am Hi its possible add more sales volume its possible add more sales item like product name ( eg: iron , steel, copper, ) Thanks Thowfeek M Reply 67. Shakun says: October 4, 2011 at 11:12 am Hey Chandoo, such charts makes your work alive. But I have a confusion. what to do if we want to compare sales of 2 quarters in this same data. For example, sales of November and march for year 2003. Rest all is same.Then how will we link two cells with one check box. Please reply Reply 68. Morry says: October 4, 2011 at 8:50 pm I really love to get here by google!! trick!! Tnx lots and lots!! Reply 69. Rey says: October 25, 2011 at 12:34 am U r the man in graphs. tnx lots Reply 70. Ken says: November 1, 2011 at 4:12 am Hi Chandoo, Im really at my wits end! I did up a dynamic chart similar to yours, but everytime i checked the third option (ie. the line graph), the plot area will auto resize and shrink. when I unchecked, the chart will take it upon itself to expand itself to presumably optimize the plot area. But yours does not seem to resize at all. I have tried twiddling with object positioning properties, horizontal axis options, horizontal axis alignment auto refit is grayed out, etc Reply 71. Hui... says: November 1, 2011 at 8:24 am Almost literaly you save my life!!! Its a good
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@Ken . Can you either post your file or email it to me and Ill have a look Reply 72. Ken says: November 1, 2011 at 9:25 am Thanks Hui for the reply! Well actually I accidentally solved it when I remove the legends since I can use the checkboxes as my legends (better that way too). But in any case, I have uploaded in the link below, so you can have a look at the problem if you want. http://www.mediafire.com/?z38bs03cifzruy8 Reply 73. Hui... says: November 1, 2011 at 11:44 am @Ken Great you solved the problem, as the link isnt working ? Reply 74. ram says: November 4, 2011 at 2:35 am Great Article, I need help in getting the different chart types as I implemented every check box i have the same graph for every attribute. can you help me get different chart types for each attribute. Thanks. Reply Scott says: March 28, 2012 at 6:16 pm Im puzzled over that too. Each checkbox is currently formatted to show the same type of chart and i dont see anything on the Checkbox options to change that. if you click on the chart itself and then click Change Chart Types and then click on Templates, you can see that there are 3 templates saved (2 column and 1 Line), but they dont seem to be linked correctly as the line chart does not display. Anyone know what to do? Reply 75. Kam says: November 9, 2011 at 5:44 pm I have followed all the above steps correctly but it does not work. Why could this be? Reply 76. Hui... says: November 10, 2011 at 1:29 am
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@Kam Can you send me your file? Click my name, email at bottom of page Reply 77. Zee says: November 22, 2011 at 9:12 am Point 3) Now, we want the check boxes to tell whether to show or hide a particular series of data in the chart. So, link each check box to one cell, say C13, D13 and E13. Not connecting, please help Reply 78. Jasy says: December 31, 2011 at 6:46 pm Hey Chandoo, How can we link the graph only into a powerpoint presentaion Reply 79. Annie says: January 11, 2012 at 9:57 pm Hi Chandoo, Great little file thanks! I am just trying to manipulate it, but am having some issues. I am trying to break-down the sales and profits by each business unit (but keeping the year as well). Any suggestions? Reply 80. Satish says: February 17, 2012 at 5:20 pm Hi Chandoo/Anyone, I am new to excel and have seen the above dynamic chart. When i followed the instructions i get graph only when i select profit but dont get graphs for sales and customers, please help me in learning how to get graphs when select/tick on other options aswell. Regards, Satish K Reply 81. Hui... says: February 18, 2012 at 1:06 am @Satish If you email me your file ill have a look Click my name email is at the bottom of the page Reply 82. Toni says: March 18, 2012 at 4:25 pm
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Now, how to get something like this into powerpoint so when infront of clients I can change that graphs being displayed while remaining in the powerpoint presentation?!?! HELP! Reply 83. Jasmine says: March 27, 2012 at 4:59 pm Can you explain this formula?=IF(C$13,C5,NA()). Please!!! Reply 84. Jasmine says: March 27, 2012 at 5:26 pm Hi!! Also one more query when i do the above steps and when i click on check boxes the data doesnot disappear frm the chart it shows NA. Reply 85. A.Barlow says: March 30, 2012 at 9:54 pm Quick question: I have created a chart just like this, and I was wondering if it would be possible to add a dropdown menu in the chart that would let me focus on only a single months worth of data. You had another tutorial that sort of explained this, I just couldnt figure out how to make it work with this. Thanks!~ Reply 86. Nik says: April 3, 2012 at 4:42 pm Can you explain the formula in step 4 please Reply 87. Vaibhav says: April 9, 2012 at 2:20 pm Damn Awsome!! Thanks manI feel so awsome todayactually was bored sitting in front of the Idiot box, so started surfing and stumbled upon this.. One more thing ..Can I make this site invisible to my bosses? plz:P Reply 88. Kuldeep says: April 21, 2012 at 10:02 am Hi!! one more query when i do the above steps and when i click on check boxes everything works file except that data label comes as N/A. Why?
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Regards KPJ Reply 89. Abhi says: May 22, 2012 at 1:05 pm Hi Chandoo, How you create sales and profits metrics in one bar. Thanks, abhi Reply 90. Sundeep says: June 14, 2012 at 4:29 am Hey Chandoo, Awesome stuff. But I am getting stuck at the last part of process. How do you create this kind of all in one chart from the data table?? Thanks & Regards, Sundeep Reply 91. Sanjit says: June 19, 2012 at 12:28 pm Hi, I wanted to know how I can upload this site on to a website. Google gives you an embed code so we can put that in a report and publish it. But how does it work for this particular chart on top using excel. (I regularly use interactive charts for stories so need to figure out a fast and easy way of making them work) Thanks Sanjit Reply 92. dynamische grafieken - Worksheet.nl says: July 13, 2012 at 10:28 pm [...] grafieken gekomen door een website en ik wil dit graag ook hebben in mijn excel bestand. Bron: FREE Excel Dynamic Chart Template Download Dynamic chart shows values based on user selection | In mijn andere excel bestand voer ik alle gegevens in van andere bestanden in mijn excel tabel. [...] Reply 93. Jim says: July 15, 2012 at 2:33 am Hello Chandoo & Other Dynamic Chart Users! Thanks for the tutorial. It works great and looking forward to showing off. The instructions were easy to read and implement. Have a couple of questions if anyone else has run into the same issues:
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1.) I have two columns and one line in my chart. All of my data is based on the calendar year, so data today forward does not exist yet. Therefore the line runs on the X axis for the remaining year. Is there a way where no data (=IF populates zero) values do not appear on the chart? To describe better, my line illustrates the actual values from JAN JUL then falls to zero and runs the X axis for AUG DEC. Id like to have nothing there until the actual data is populated. I hope this makes sense what I am trying to describe. 2.) In my example, the line on the chart is based on data for a particular region. I have three regions that Id like to use the dynamic chart with check box feature (my checkboxes are not in the printed dashboard, but are in the worksheet and data entry section on worksheet.) However, the legend shows all items even when not checked, therefore sort of junking up the real estate and showing the audience that there are other items available but arent being shared with this particular audience. Is it possible to have the legend only visible as it relates to the check box? For example, the legend would only show the line that is checked? Ive rambled quite a bit. Thanks for reading and hope to hear some suggestions from all the great Chandoo users. Good evening! Reply 94. Shahbaz says: July 17, 2012 at 11:30 am Hi Cheetahs of Excel, In this scenario profit will never be higher than Sales What if we have to deal with the data like Target V/s Achievement where achievement can be higher than target or vice versa? This can make one of our scale (target or Ach.) hide behind the other.. Kindly guide how can we tackle this situation. I was looking for any transparency sort of technique to implement in here but no success yet Thanks in Advance!
Reply Hui says: July 17, 2012 at 2:53 pm @Shahbaz Id suggest offsetting the two Columns slightly so they are not directly on top of each other Reply 95. Shreyas Goel says: July 26, 2012 at 4:48 am How does one remove the labels- Sales, Profits & No. of Customers from the check boxes. Reply Chandoo says: July 26, 2012 at 5:33 am Just right click on the check box, edit text and remove the labels. Reply
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Shreyas Goel says: July 26, 2012 at 7:06 am Thank you, sir. Is there any way to shift the No of Customers to the secondary axis (maybe, on the RHS) so that a bit more clarity. Reply
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Shreyas Goel says: July 26, 2012 at 7:16 am Apologies to trouble you, i got it. Just one quick question, could you please share the templates of the charts shown in Why No One Likes Your Pie Charts (And What to Do About It) Thanks
Reply 98. Making your dashboards interactive [Dashboard Essentials] | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: August 2, 2012 at 8:22 am [...] Using check boxes with charts example & tutorial [...] Reply 99. Excel Dashboard Examples - 66 Dashboards to Visualize Excel salaries around world | Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online says: August 3, 2012 at 9:06 am [...] Using Check-boxes to show hide data in charts [...] Reply 100. Md Taufeeq says: August 8, 2012 at 9:17 am I prepared in the same way but all three sets of data are showing in same chart. Eg Sales, profit and Year are coming in bar graph, how to show two sets of value in bar and one in line graph. Reply 101. Pradeep says: August 14, 2012 at 10:49 am Awesome Chandoo baba, you made my day Reply 102. Sundeep says: August 14, 2012 at 4:04 pm I am waiting.Can someone please tell me how to create a 2-in-1 chart such as both column & line added over here. Reply Hui... says: August 15, 2012 at 3:42 am
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@Sundeep
Have a look at: http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/01/05/excel-combination-charts/ & http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/07/02/secondary-axis-combination-charts-howto/ Reply 103. Dynamic Graphing Question says: August 15, 2012 at 3:40 pm [...] chandoo.org as guidance on making an interactive graph. great stuff actually. here is the url: FREE Excel Dynamic Chart Template Download Dynamic chart shows values based on user selection | everything is working great but i cannot figure out how to graph the Line portion on top of [...] Reply
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