Animate a chart in Excel to create a cool effect for your charts. You will see the chart build itself in front of your very eyes.
The chart can be created in the usual way and then VBA is used to create the animation effect.
In this example a combo box is used to provide a way for the user to select the chart they want to see. The chart then gradually appears one data point at a time.
Creating a scrollable chart in Excel is a great chart trick for enhancing the functionality of your Excel dashboards. You may have years of data to display in the chart, and yet space is limited on your spreadsheet.
By adding a scroll bar to the chart, users can interact with the chart and scroll to see the data they want displayed.
In this example, we have a spreadsheet with revenue for the last 23 months. As this is a lot of data to plot, we have decided that the chart will only display 5 months at a time. A scroll bar will be added so that users can scroll through the years.
Create a Histogram in Excel to graphically represent the distribution of data. It looks like a column chart with each column representing an interval (bin), and the column height representing the frequency that it appears.
Essentially the graph groups numbers into intervals (bins) and displays how often they appear. The graph then beautifully illustrates how the sets of numbers are distributed.
For example, the histogram below displays the distribution of school grades from 20 pupils among different intervals.
