Excel offers many different types of charts except a speedometer chart. In this tutorial, we’ll create a really impressive, workable speedometer chart by using a combination of doughnuts and pie charts.
Make a simple clustered column chart to compare values across different categories. Then, by tweaking the chart elements, you can easily turn it into a thermometer chart for a clear visual representation of your data.
In Excel, you can create a chart without directly storing data in cells by using the SERIES function. Here’s a basic example of how you can achieve this:
Although creating new charts is wonderful, updating them to reflect new circumstances can take a lot of effort. You can reduce the amount of work needed to change the data used by a chart in a number of ways.
To make your chart truly interactive, you can use one or more dynamic ranges in your chart and then use a drop-down list from the Forms Controls to reveal the figures your readers want to peruse.
In this tutorial, we will cover the following steps:
1. Creating a chart.
2. Setting up three dynamic named ranges.
3. Editing the chart to utilize the named ranges.
4. Developing macros to update chart data at specified time intervals.
5. Executing the macros to animate the graph or chart.
To make your chart truly interactive, you can use one or more dynamic ranges in your chart and then use a scrollbar from the Forms toolbar to reveal the figures your readers want to peruse.
Excel handles dates and times by treating them as numbers, allowing it to adjust the chart scale accordingly. When you input actual dates, Excel automatically recognizes them and adjusts the chart. But what should you do if Excel doesn’t represent the text as dates on the chart?
The chart scale is like the ruler for a chart or graph. It tells us the smallest and biggest numbers we see on the chart. It also shows how the numbers are spread out. By following these steps, you can change the scale on a graph (chart) in Excel to better visualize your data.
A common assumption is that charting data requires a single, contiguous table. However, sometimes you may want to chart only a subset of the data in a table, and the columns you need may not be adjacent. This situation is not uncommon, but it requires some extra steps when creating your chart.