Here is something fun, personalized and delicious to start your new year. A Picture Calendar built in Excel!
Printable 12 Month Picture Calendar
Using this you can print a 12 month calendar with your own photos. Its fun to use, easy to set up and looks great. See this demo to understand how it works.
Download Picture Calendar Template
Click here to download the picture calendar template. Enable macros to use it. [6mb]
How to use this?
This is a very simple Excel template. Just follow these instructions.
- Once you download the file, you would find 4 sheets inside.
- Go to the Monthly Calendar tab and play with the calendar. If you want to change colors, fonts etc. do that.
- Now, go to Pics tab. Here we have 12 pics (preloaded with some cute cats & dogs)
- Remove all the pics and add your own.
- Once you added the pics, resize them so that they can fit in Column B (800 px). Each photo should take up 2 rows (total 600 px maximum)
- Once you have added the photos, arrange each photo in 1 cells, starting from B2 (thus 12th pic will be in B24&B25)
- That is all, go back to Monthly calendar to check out your own personalized picture calendar.
Bonus: Click on the “Make 12 month PDF” to generate 12 month-wise calendars pdfs.
How does this work?
This calendar uses some of my favorite techniques,
- Picture links – to display picture for any given month
- OFFSET, INDEX formulas – to drive the calculations
- Macros – to change the month
To help you understand how this works, I have made a short video explaining the template, the VBA code & formulas. Go ahead and watch it below:
(Watch it on our Youtube Channel)
Do you like this template?
How do you like this template? Are you planning to use this? Please share your comments, ideas with us. Go ahead and comment.
15 Responses to “Make a Bubble Chart in Excel [15 second tutorial]”
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
Whyyyyyyyy?
The idea is to tell how to make a bubble chart. I got an e-mail from a reader recently asking how the scatter bubble is made. So I thought a 15 second tutorial would be a good idea to show this.
Did that email go "Dear Chandoo, I know that you scorn bubble charts, but if I don't do one in Excel for my boss then he'll fire my sorry ass, and my children will have to be sold for medical experiments in order for me to be able to afford the upgrade path to Excel 2010"?
If so, fair enough...it's all in the greater good 😉
Chandoo,
I am using excel 2003 and it is not working. The x axis is not the one that I enter in x axis column. Please help! Thanks.
Sorry, after few attempts, I managed to get the right result. I shouldn't select the title (header) of the table and select only the data to produce the right bubble chart.
What's wrong with bubble charts? Is there a better method for displaying scatter plots with lots of overlapping data points? Don't tell me you'd rather jitter!
@Sanwijay: Cool.
@Precious Roy: There is nothing wrong with bubble charts. Infact, it is the only way to show 3 dimensional data (x,y and sizes) without confusing your audience. Jeff is worried that people might misuse the chart. As with any chart, bubbles also have a place and time for using them.
I recommend using bubble charts to show relative performance various products in several regions and similar situations.
Also, human eye is notorious in wrongly estimating the bubble sizes (as we have to measure areas). See http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/07/28/charting-lessons-from-optical-illusions/
We can partially improve bubble charts by adding data labels, but if you have too many bubbles, the labels will clutter the chart and make it look busy.
I can't seem to find a way to plot more than ten bubbles on a chart and need to know how to add more
@KW.. why would such a thing happen. I am sure you can add more bubbles that that. Can you tell us exactly what you are doing...
Example table:
A B C (size)
Me: 25 30 15%
Him: 30 22 11%
Her: 12 30 20%
I am trying to make a bubble chart where the Y axis is A, the X axis is B, and the size of the bubble is C. There should be only 3 bubbles. I keep ending up with six (with the labels being only "Me" and "Her"). My goal is to have three bubbles, one representing each person. Clearly I am doing something wrong. Can you help explain...?
Hi,
I wanted to add data labels to the bubbles. Each bubble represents a different company name. Excel allows me to add the size, legend, x axis values and y axis values. How do I add instead- Company A, B, C, D for the bubbles?
youon you have to choice every data for every company..
ex:create bubble for A company,after that click right> add data label> adjust data labels :format data labels and choose : series name.
i hop u will succeed .
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If we want bubble size to be controlled by one column, but the bubble labels to be controlled by another column, how can this be achieved?
many thanks!!!!