Recently, I wrote a tutorial on tax burden in USA chart.
Jared, One of our readers liked this chart very much. Jared works as a workforce scheduler and has data similar to our chart. So he applied the same technique to analyze monthly service levels for last 7 years & sent me the file so that I can share it with all of you.
Monthly service levels in last 7 years – Demo:
First take a look at the demo of Jared’s chart.
Recipe of this chart
This chart construction is similar to our Tax burden chart. Only addition is the cool scroll bar at bottom to see any month’s service level across years.
How does the scroll bar work?
- If you have never used scroll bar or any other form controls, read our introduction to form controls page.
- The chart has one extra series that shows selected month’s value and a bunch of #N/As.
- Scroll bar is setup to have minimum 1, maximum 12 and is linked to a cell.
- Based on scroll-bar selection, we turn on one of the months and make the rest of values NA()
- Using a simple IF formula
- For this extra series, Jared added 100% negative error bar so that a nice drop line is shown when you select a month.
That is all.
Download Jared’s Example and get inspired
Click here to download this workbook. Play with it to learn more. Use this idea in your work and impress someone. Become awesome.
Do you like this example? Say thanks to Jared…
I really loved Jared’s creativity and simple solution. Not to mention his kindness to share this with me and all of you. This shows that by using easy features like scroll bars, slicers, regular charts we can create something that is stunning, meaningful and powerful – right inside Excel.
What about you? Do you like this example? If you learned something new, say thanks to Jared for sharing this with us.
PS: If you want to share your story of how you use Excel to do something awesome, please email me. I am eager to learn from your examples and share your stories on Chandoo.org.
30 Responses to “Great News: Chandoo becomes MVP”
Congratulations! It's well deserved. 🙂
This is amazing. Hearty congratulations and a rocking new year ahead!!!
Congrats! I have learnt alot from your site... and the most important is learning how to achieve the most with the simplest concepts.
Thanks for the excel calendar. Is it possible to get a simple big fonted calendar printable on an A4 size paper without any distracive notes or visuals? BTW, I have already signed up for your newsletter. With warm regards and
Gratefully yours
50+ year old CHarish.
Hey Chandoo,
Great to hear that. Congratulations! The best new year gift, I would say. Keep it up, u've been doing extraordinary work for the excel users community.
Regards,
Pankaj Verma
Congrats dude... fantastic news!
congratulations! your site is great, this is well deserved
Rich
I recently found your site, I visit many. The tips that you provide are in the top 1% of all the sites I visit. Keep on Excelling.
Arnold
South Africa
Congratulations, Chandoo! That's a great way to start the year and make the PHD even better.
Congratulations, Chandoo.
Your site is one of most useful on the net. Happy new year and lot of ideas you will present for us.
Congrats.
Just read your name in an email from Abhishek. Well deserved.
Congratulations, and Happy New Year.
Greetings from Rio de Janeiro my friend! You trully deserve it!
Nive way to start 2009! Keep up the good work!
FC
That was quite forseeable , so you have now really got your PhD in excel.
Anyways Chandoo you have made excel a real Fun doo
I will like you to write some more on INDEX and MATCH function in near future.
@Hey Chandoo ! Congrates....
Ab to treat mangta hai !
Well deserved Chandoo!!
Congrat's!! Very well deserved 🙂
i always browsed mr.excel and used to see MVP writtne below names of people who used to solve queries in excel forum there......i just used to admire as to what they have special in them that they are MVP......
but now i got my answer...............u deserve it man..........
@All: thanks everyone 🙂
Congratulations Chandoo, nice job!
Chandoo,
A well deserved recognition and a good start to the New Year. Continue your good work.
Subbu
Many Congratulations.
You deserve a Ph.D. 🙂
congrats.....
Congrats dude. Rock on!
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Respected sir,
I am impressed!.... Good job done.. Keep it up...
Sir, How to be a MVP certified person. What level of knowledge is required for it? send me links if possible.
Please reply...
Regards,
Dipak Khalasi.
Dipak -
The first thing you need to cultivate is the ability to search the web effectively. You could start by Googling "Microsoft MVP".
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Congrats Chandoo!!
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