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Automate Excel charts building and moving to Power Point presentations
02 years ago
Hi,
Today we would like to present you yet another Excel add-in that we created for one our client. This is another implementation of the tool to build and transfer Excel charts into PowerPoint presentations.
The tool is quite universal so you could easily adapt yourself to use it.
The solution is quite simple and it uses at maximum the natural capabilities of Excel.
So, imagine you have a huge set of data which you have to analyse somehow, create charts on separate subsets of data and transfer them into PowerPoint presentations to then submit them to your clients. With this add-in you are actually supposed to have
- a table with data
- an area where you can insert row numbers
- an area that is filled dynamically with data by means of formulas and that takes a row number as an input
- sheet charts that have as data source the before mentioned area
Arrow charts in Excel
03 years ago
by valerashylin
in VBA
Hi,
Today we would like to present you another solution that we started to use in our company. This is a tool for automatically building ARROW CHARTS!
After spending some time searching for ideas or similar tools in the Internet we found nothing that would perfectly fit our needs, thus, we created our own solution. 
To make the story short, this is how it works:
The tool works with a 4-column table of data where each row starts with a name of the series. An XY chart will be created (or you may use any already created XY chart). Only four columns after the title column are considered. The tool will use the first 2 data columns to put the point and the arrow from the second point will point to the first one. (I hope I made myself clear…)
The current version does not work correctly in Excel 2007. In fact, it works perfectly well in Excel 2003. So, make sure you updated your MS Office software. Since this is our tool for internal use, we did not test it on Office 2002 and Office 2000.
Soon we will introduce the support for Office 2007.
This tool can become very useful for the companies which conduct marketing research and need to build dozens of arrow charts. Since Excel does not provide tools for doing that automatically the work is typically done manually. From now on we make Excel do it for us!!!
Feel free to contact us with any questions, suggestions and ideas about this topic.
Traditionally, you can find this solution on our web site www.yRiver.it
(ArrowCharts.exee [the file you download is a self-extracting archive; change its extension from .exee to .exe])
where in the category OUR PROJECTS
you can also find other projects, solutions, ideas and concepts.
Excel: Load data from an external data file and create dynamic charts
03 years ago
by Ivan Femia
in VBA
I would like to present you a project of mine that shows how it’s possible to load data into excel from an external data file and create dynamic charts.
Very interesting is the possibility to upload data with a simple browsing window. (only 1 code line)
Dim sFileName As Variant
sFileName = Application.GetOpenFilename(“Text Files (*.txt), *.txt”) ‘can add parameters. See help for details.
If sFileName = False Then
MsgBox “No data file selected.”
Else
…File parsing logic…
End if
Ask me for any futher information about this tool.
Charts in Excel automatically
03 years ago
Hi,
today we will present you one more small solution to simplify your life in working with Excel. This is an Excel add-in that will enable you to build charts based on one selected.
Let me explain its use on an example. Assume that you have a huge table of data (say, some 50 000 rows). When you decide to build a chart based on this table of data you will probably want to build one chart per one row since it is the only feasible way of presenting data graphically in such a case. If you decide to do that manually (even if you totally need “only”, say, 100 charts) it will take A LOT of time!
So, this add-in will help you create charts based on the selected range of rows. You have to define the template chart.
The current implementation allows you to build charts with only one series. Though, the number of series could be expanded on demand.
Below you can see the video demonstration of how it actually works:
You can freely download the add-in from our web-site www.yRiver.it
(AutomaticCharts.zip)
which is actually located in the category OUR PROJECTS
where you will find other projects, solutions, ideas and concepts.
Transfer Excel charts to Power Point presentations
13 years ago
by valerashylin
in VBA
So here is an add-in for MS Excel that enables automatic transfer of Excel charts into PowerPoint presentations based on the selected presentation template.
The main features of the add-in are:
- compatibility with Office 2003 and Office 2007 (in fact, there are 2 add-ins that function virtually in the same way);
- high flexibility in customization of PPoint presentation templates (you put rectangular shapes in the place where you want to see the respective chart from Excel and insert the number of the chart to be associated with);
- the ZOrder position of the rectangular shape will be assigned to the inserted chart shape;
- high general flexibility of the system (it allows transferring any charts from any Excel workbook to any presentation with rectangular shapes indicating the position of the charts to insert);
- charts on all the worksheets are transferred, not only on the active worksheet
Charts are inserted via a new blank workbook which means that only relevant data will be transferred to PowerPoint. This is especially necessary for Office 2003 since the inserted chart brings with it the whole Excel workbook which sometimes may be huge enough.
For Office 2007 this problem is irrelevant since Office 2007 does not allow embedding Excel charts with source data (it creates a link to the source data) into PowerPoint presentation.
The add-in was designed and rendered public by YellowRiver (www.yriver.it). You can find more in OUR PROJECTS chapter of the YellowRiver web-site.
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