Venn Diagrams in Excel

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Venn Diagrams in Microsoft ExcelThis post is a testament that readers of this blog are way cooler and enterprising than I am. Justin, who I must say, has some really amazing excel skills, contacted me in April with a VBA Script he made that can draw two circle Venn diagrams in excel. He wrote,

I regularly need to show the intersection between different populations (venn diagrams) and have struggled to find anything useful in XL2000 or XL2003

Most examples are static pictures of circles created in a graphics program to which users add labels – hardly ideal

While still a WIP –  I’ve come up with a simple 2 circle venn tool.

It uses drawing objects [msoShapeOval] (nice to get the transparency)

I saw the script and was really impressed by the way it worked. I wrote back to him asking if it is ok to share this with the readers on PHD. And he said OK. Ever since I have been wanting to share this wonderful little tool with all of you.

Without further ado…

Venn Diagrams in Excel

Venn Diagrams in Microsoft Excel using VBA, Add-ins
1. First download the Venn diagrams in excel zip file from here [xls version here].

2. Now when you try to open the file, you must enable macros (in excel 2007, you may want to set the security to low and then reopen the file)

3. Click on the big button you see in the first sheet and specify the venn diagram details (how many in each circle, what is the intersection amount)

4. Click the “Draw Venn” button and you have a sparkling venn diagram ready

Once again, I really appreciate Justin for putting together such a nice tool and sharing it will all of us. Thank you 🙂

PS: If you like this, do say thank you to Justin in comments. I am sure he can take pretty much any amount of appreciation.

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17 Responses to “Budget vs. Actual Profit Loss Report using Pivot Tables”

  1. Dau says:

    Good Work, Yogesh & Chandoo! Thanks.

  2. Abdul Kader says:

    Hi everybody,
    first sorry I am late to say something about this topic;actually I was waiting last part
    second I am not accountant I am an Engineer
    third """"Very Important""" the idea is not about Loss but I am sure it is profit
    Based on third it shows:
    1- How to use EXCEL
    2- How to use pivot TABLES
    3- How to collect and arrange DATA
    4- How to make reports

    Many Thanks

  3. UB says:

    Hi Yogesh and Chandoo,

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
    You guys are great!

  4. Alejandro says:

    thanks chandoo and yogesh, thanks for you lessons, are great!....i have a idea for a budget. I try to do it..... thanks for all

  5. SAUL ESPINOZA says:

    Thanks a lot for sharing the most powerful tool worldwide "knowledge"
    Warm greetings from Peru

  6. juanito says:

    Hi -
    This is a really great article because it's a simple and common thing you'd want to do with a pivot table but not at all obvious how to do it! So - muchas gracias to Chandoo and Yogesh!
    One thing - I couldn't get past the group error in the sample file. I would click on ungroup but it didn't seem to have any effect. I'd appreciate it if anybody has any pointers here.

    -Juanito

  7. Adam says:

    Hi Chandoo

    I am also having the group error. Can't seem to ungroup? Appreciate if you explain further on the steps required in order to get to calculated items.

    Many thanks and keep up the great work.

    Cheers
    Adam

  8. Catherine says:

    Hi Chandoo,

    I'm struggling resolving the problem depicted below:
    I have a set of data, with (among others) a "Region" field (can be APJ, EMEA, or AMS), and a "Country" field.
    Unfortunately, I need to group data by the following 4 Regions: APeJ, Japan, EMEA and AMS.

    I first tried to make a pivot with Region and Country in the rows (or columns), and then group Country data as per the above.
    Alas, as soon as I have a new Country that appear in my data set, my groupings are broken, and I have to redo the job of ungrouping, grouping etc.

    I thought I could try to use calculated item, by adding first a new column to my dataset concatenating Region_Country, and create an "APeJ" calculated item that would sum all the "APJ_*" and substract the "APJ_Japan", but again, no clue, as I can't find a way to use any wild card in those formulas.

    Given that I already found extremely helpful tips and tricks in your site that helped me manage that bunch of data, I'm pretty sure you'll have a bright idea on how I can solve that one!

    Thanks in advance for your lights!

    • Chandoo says:

      Hi Catherine...

      In such cases, I advice using an additional column in the data itself. You can set-up a grouping table else where with country in first column, region in second column. And then in the data, you can add an extra column and use VLOOKUP to fetch the region based on the country.

      Then feed this entire data (with extra column) to pivot table and use the extra column to group the data.

      • Catherine says:

        Hi Chandoo,

        Thank you for your prompt answer.
        I finally came to the same conclusion - after a rest 🙂 . I was probably too tired Friday evening (it was rather late), having spent hours in manipulating all my surveys data so as to pull rolling averages, make nice graphs and so on, and was trying to find a complex solution when there was a simple one.

        Thanks again,
        Catherine

  9. Tzu says:

    Hey,

    Great post!

    I for example have different database structure with the following fields :

    Date, Expense, Income, Sum (Income - Expense), Category (Sales, Cost of Goods and etc).

    Creating a P&L report for the whole year works great. Including gross margin % and etc.

    Though, creating P&L report by QTR/Month is becoming impossible since i get the following error : “This PivotTable report field is grouped. You cannot add calculated item to grouped filed.”

    Is there a solution for this kind of problem?
     

  10. klumsyboy says:

    Like Adam and Juanito, I also cannot ungroup.

    Would appreciate it if you can add a few more lines and a screenshot or two on where to put the mouse cursor to ungroup. 

  11. klumsyboy says:

    Hi,  I have figured out the ungrouping problem. One of the earlier steps was to group by month, if you pull the month back down to the column then right click and then select ungroup, then pull the month back up so you end up with just data source and budget/actual as the headings, then you can continue on.

  12. Kent Lau says:

    To solve the ungroup problem, my method is:
    Copy the "data" sheet to a whole new Excel workbook
    and directly work on Part 6.

    And since it is a fresh copy, Excel don't show me the "can't ungroup" problem. Hope this help.

    Thank you Yogesh for this wonderful tutorial.

    Kent, Malaysia

  13. felipe says:

    Just when i thought pivots were awesome i learn about inserting the calculated fields and that makes them more awesome. chandoo where have you been all my life.

  14. barrierone says:

    Hello - your P&L pivot version has really impressed my boss and would like to use it. I have applied it for a actual vs budget vs forecast model I have created. One problem. In your variance above the operating profit percent % variance shows 33.8% but I want it to show (0.01) point or the true diff from prior budget.

    I know I can add calculation to the side but boss would like to see it in pivot table.

    Please help
    Thanks

  15. barrierone says:

    I have a further query which may solve my above dilemma. Is it possible to add a column that calculates percent increase. So in the example above a new column would be added to show variance %.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks