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User-defined charts
Hello,
I'¨m trying to build some user defined charts for several users to maintain consistent formatting etc. I know how to make the charts, saving them and most settings but there is one issue I haven't solved yet. The user defined charts will be used on lots of different datatypes. For exampel, one of the charts will have 2 dataseries but another will have 10. They should still have the same type of formatting in all series. Lets say they want a Line chart and the the lines should be of a spesific thickness (thicker than default). How can I make sure that all lines will have this thickness, no matter how many dataseries there are? Do I have to create a user defined chart with a maximum number of dataseries and format all series to my specifications? -- Fredrik E. Nilsen |
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Do I have to create a user defined chart with a maximum
number of dataseries and format all series to my specifications? That's right. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Fredrik E. Nilsen" wrote in message ... Hello, I'¨m trying to build some user defined charts for several users to maintain consistent formatting etc. I know how to make the charts, saving them and most settings but there is one issue I haven't solved yet. The user defined charts will be used on lots of different datatypes. For exampel, one of the charts will have 2 dataseries but another will have 10. They should still have the same type of formatting in all series. Lets say they want a Line chart and the the lines should be of a spesific thickness (thicker than default). How can I make sure that all lines will have this thickness, no matter how many dataseries there are? Do I have to create a user defined chart with a maximum number of dataseries and format all series to my specifications? -- Fredrik E. Nilsen |
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On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 22:09:05 -0500, "Jon Peltier"
wrote: Do I have to create a user defined chart with a maximum number of dataseries and format all series to my specifications? That's right. Thanks for your quick reply. A couple of more questions then: What is the maximum number of dataseries in a chart? And is there a way to achive consistant formatting through VBA? -- Fredrik E. Nilsen |
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You can have up to 255 series in a chart, which should be more than enough
for any legible chart. In vba you can apply formats to a chart, so this is a matter of setting up the code to apply the desired formats to the appropriate series. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Fredrik E. Nilsen" wrote in message ... On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 22:09:05 -0500, "Jon Peltier" wrote: Do I have to create a user defined chart with a maximum number of dataseries and format all series to my specifications? That's right. Thanks for your quick reply. A couple of more questions then: What is the maximum number of dataseries in a chart? And is there a way to achive consistant formatting through VBA? -- Fredrik E. Nilsen |
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:00:45 -0500, "Jon Peltier"
wrote: You can have up to 255 series in a chart, which should be more than enough for any legible chart. In vba you can apply formats to a chart, so this is a matter of setting up the code to apply the desired formats to the appropriate series. Thanks again! I have tried google for more information about how Excel handles this but I haven't found anything that goes in the depth of it. Do you have any pointers? Sites, books etc. It seems to me there should be an option to set these settings once and for all. I have customers making reports with 30-50 different charts every day and they spend a lot of time tweaking the formatting. Is VB really the only way to go? Any add-ins you know of? Or do people use other tools for this sort of work? -- Fredrik E. Nilsen |
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:48:38 -0600, "Don Guillett"
wrote: Jon is perhaps the foremost charting authority for excel. Jon Peltier's Excel Charts Yes, so I've noticed. -- Fredrik E. Nilsen |
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I meant to give you the url to his web site
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/index.html -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Fredrik E. Nilsen" wrote in message ... On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:48:38 -0600, "Don Guillett" wrote: Jon is perhaps the foremost charting authority for excel. Jon Peltier's Excel Charts Yes, so I've noticed. -- Fredrik E. Nilsen |
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:57:46 -0600, "Don Guillett"
wrote: I meant to give you the url to his web site http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/index.html Yes, I know about his website and I've been through it. I'm seeking even more in-depth information. -- Fredrik E. Nilsen |
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What VBA does is applies the tweaking automatically. You need to come up
with a template or a set of tweaks that make people happy enough with the chart. I don't know what you mean by set the settings once and for all, unless you want a more totally VBA approach that dumps the data into an Excel template and plots it in a protected chart. Otherwise, human nature dictates that people are going to tweak. If you decide to use VBA, you could start with some recorded macros, then examine the code and remove duplicate items and stray mouse actions. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Fredrik E. Nilsen" wrote in message news On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:00:45 -0500, "Jon Peltier" wrote: You can have up to 255 series in a chart, which should be more than enough for any legible chart. In vba you can apply formats to a chart, so this is a matter of setting up the code to apply the desired formats to the appropriate series. Thanks again! I have tried google for more information about how Excel handles this but I haven't found anything that goes in the depth of it. Do you have any pointers? Sites, books etc. It seems to me there should be an option to set these settings once and for all. I have customers making reports with 30-50 different charts every day and they spend a lot of time tweaking the formatting. Is VB really the only way to go? Any add-ins you know of? Or do people use other tools for this sort of work? -- Fredrik E. Nilsen |
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