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By: Elvis E.

Elvis E. — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:00:51 +0000

Fabrice,

Your link dated September 25, 2008 reports:

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By: Padhu

Padhu — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:32:35 +0000

Sparklines is awesome. Great work Fabrice.

By: Marisol

Marisol — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:20:44 +0000

Andreas

I’m just learning how to use use MicroCharts by Bonavista, and looking at their dashboards, it looks AWESOME. However, mine don’t look so awesome. I’d love to know how to layer a line graph over a bar chart. I haven’t been able to find a good user group online.

By: Alex

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By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:26:29 +0000

@Fabrice: That is an awesome update to spark-lines. Cant wait to test it once I get to my PC.

PS: yeah, Seattle is a lovely place…

By: Fabrice

Fabrice — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:34:39 +0000

Hi Chandoo,

A new release of Sparklines for Excel is available for download on Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=229215&package_id=277672&release_id=628820)

This new version includes the following changes :

All charts – added possibility to make intermediary calculation inside the UDFs (pass parameters without referring to a range containing the parameter)
All sparklines are now renamed : Sprk & sparklinetype & active sheet name & active cell range.

Pie-chart – New type of chart… Jon Peltier and Stephen Few will certainly love it … one piece of pie displayed only !

Heatmap – New type of chart, suitable for 2D and 3D heatmaps (Size + Color) … not a sparkline anymore, but it can be efficient if properly used

Boxplot – New type of chart… a standard for statical analysis of populations, with the help of Nixnut from Holland

BarChart – Added parameters for colors of bars… for those who really do not appreciate the simple and clean grey scale

LineChart – Added parameters for colors of lines
BulletChart – Added possibilty to choose a color scheme

ScaleLine – Added 3 text zone (Left ; center ; right) and choice of font size… I think this was really missing, but text display dramatically slows down the code.

VariChart – Added possibilty to choose a color scheme… just to be coherent w/ other charts, an allow users to have a certain uniformity across their dasboards
Color Scales – 2 separate sheets with well balanced color scales. Some personal inspiration and great color scales from ColorBrewer
Additional macro (via Alt+F8) to delete all sparklines of the active sheet (but only the sparklines…)

The next topics I will work on are :
A macro + menu to automatically copy all required VBA modules and code to other workbooks
A 4D heatmap … just for fun : Color, size and piechart in an array (ok, a small one)
An Add-in version of sparklines for XL
Solve the printing issue on Piecharts (perfect circles on the screen but ovals when printed …)

All ideas, suggestions and feed back are welcome…

Best regards

PS : Seattle… I’d love to live there for a while.

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:38:47 +0000

@Jon, agree… making other charts using REPT() is possible

@Jorge: Thanks for letting me know about the camera tool, I have never used it before. Will try it.

Btw, I agree that you can use shapes to create micro chart effect. I didnt cover it because of the simpler alternatives available. thanks for sharing it with our readers

@Fabrice: I had to say “installing UDFs” part because… your workbook with sparklines works fine as long as I create the sparklines in it. But what if I need to create sparklines in my own workbook, in that case I need to save your workbook as an .xla file.. isn’t it?

Thanks for removing the need for “analysis tool pack”, Your spark lines are easier to use now.