Nothing gives a teacher more satisfaction than seeing a student apply the knowledge to do something awesome. So naturally, I jumped with joy when I got this email from Dan, one of my VBA Class students,
Hi Chandoo,
After going thru your VBA Classes, I realized that we can lots of awesome stuff with pivot tables + simple macros. I recently created an Excel Dashboard to depict MLB (Major League Baseball) Pitching Stats. I could not have done this had I not learned VBA. Thank you so much for teaching the class.
I got curious and requested Dan, if I could share the file with you all. Being a lovely person, Dan agreed immediately.
MLB Pitching Stats Dashboard – using Excel + VBA
[Click here for larger version]
How does this dashboard work?
Dan used a lot of techniques to weave together this dashboard. Since it would take me until Christmas if I explain everything, I made a short video explaining how this dashboard works. See it below:
You can see it on our youtube channel too.
What techniques are used in this dashboard?
Dan is a regular reader of Chandoo.org, so he used many of the charting & formula techniques we teach here (as well as in my Excel School & VBA classes). Click thru below links to learn them.
- Dynamic Named Ranges using OFFSET formula
- Dynamic Charts
- Using Form Controls
- Sorting a list using Pivot Tables
- Updating Pivot Table Report Filters using VBA
- Excel Dashboards – Examples, Resources & Ideas
- Highlighting points in line charts & scatter plots
Download MLB Pitching Stats Excel Dashboard
Click here to download the Excel workbook and play with the dashboard.
Ready to Create your Own Dashboards & VBA Code?
If you want to create similar stuff and wow everyone at work, then joining my upcoming batch of VBA classes is a good idea. We are re-opening enrollments for this course on September 5th.
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Thank you Dan
Thank you so much Dan for making my day. I really liked the way you have put together many concepts to create a stunning dashboard.
If you liked this dashboard, say thanks to Dan.
17 Responses to “Custom Number Formats – Colors”
You are right, Chandoo. I was playing with the colour numbers last week and some of them don't appear different from each other. Others are totally different from yours.
@Duncan
Each version of Excel, post 2003, renders colors slightly differently
Different language versions may also have different default color palettes
Hello in french
excel 2010
colo1 = couleur1 = black
[couleur1]; [couleur2]; etc..
@Hui, thank you very much again for this great post.
However - under Excel 2007, Hungarian version your solution does not work with color names. I've tried both English and Hungarian names, but drops an error message "not valid formats"
Do you have any idea how to solve this issue?
thanks in advance
@Andras
Without a Hungarian version of Excel 2003 I don't think I can assist
Have you tried using the colour numbers? I couldn't get the names to work (despite using an english version of excel). but it did work with the numbers though. I left out the "u" and was easily able to produce burgundy using [color9]
Here a possible solution: find an English version of Excel, write there the formats using English names, then open the file in the Hungarian version and see the translation.
In Excel 2007 I can't get the colour names to work e.g Sea Green but the numbers do e.g color3 - colour3 does not work so I must bow to the country that has stolen my language (ha ha!)
Hey chandoo, nice Tip!
Wouldn't be easier just apply some conditional formatting for negative numbers and another for positive numbers? Or there's some cases that you can't do that?
Unfortunately the TEXT function doesn't color the cell as number formatting does.
Hi Hui,
Great post Sir, love the new way of formatting with color numbers.
I am using 2007, and it leads me to the last color number 56.
Thanks Hui.
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Thanks Hui - works a treat!
Thank you, very helpful.
Trying to figure out if it is possible to apply color only to a part of the cell?
E.g. I have a value formatted as Accounting with a currency symbol.
Those I find somewhat distracting though necessary. If I could make them less obtrusive by coloring them gray while the number would stay black, that would be great. Tried tinkering with the format string, but didn't get the desired result. Single color for complete cell value works, but coloring just part of it could not be achieved. Maybe somebody managed that?
Exactly what I was looking for - thank you!
colour in the Australian doesn't work - we have to go American and no problem.
I always thought is was 56 colours notice you have 57. Cool.
thanks
Analir Pisani
Customised Microsoft Office Training Specialist
Sydney - Australia
http://www.azsolutions.com.au
Thank You!