Comments on: Management Dashboards – Highlight Values Based on Percentile [Part 3 or 6]

By: Aires

Aires — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:51:55 +0000

Heh, I was wondering where did you insert it without “cheating”!

But thanks anyway!

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:02:29 +0000

@Aires.. copy paste

Copy the symbol and then paste it while writing the formula.

By: Aires

Aires — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:56:47 +0000

These are great tutorials! Congratulations, Robert and Chandoo.

I have a probably simple question: I can’t figure out how do you insert the triangle symbols on the excel formula. Inserting symbol on menu doesn’t seem to work. Can anyone help me with it?

Best regards, Aires

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By: BrisbaneBob

BrisbaneBob — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:24:11 +0000

Great! – simple, effective, and informative. You don’t get better with dashboarding than that.

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Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:14:10 +0000

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By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:35:43 +0000

Brian,

I guess you are using an English version of Excel?

If not, this could be the problem.

E.g. I am using a German version and the English function PERCENTILE is QUANTIL in the German version. So if you are using a version with another language than English, you have to replace PERCENTILE by the name of this function in the used language.

If this does not help either, maybe you want to send me your workbook to trm001 at online dot de and I will have a look at it.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:31:53 +0000

Thanks for replying, Robert:

Yeah, it seems I have everything in order (I’ve followed everything step-by-step), but I am getting the #NAME? error. The first IF clause works fine: nothing is displayed when sorted by the referenced column. But when I sort by another column, the error is displayed.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:10:50 +0000

Brian,

thanks for your feedback and question.

First of all: I guess you have seen the first comment? The formula in the text of the post itself is incomplete. I recommend to download the workbook and look at the formulas there.

Another reason why it is not working in your workbook might be the defined range name “SortCriteria” used in the condition of the IF-clause. Did you define this range name in your workbook as well? If you did not but still have the name in the formula you will receive an error (#NAME?).

If this does not solve your problem, please come back again.