Today, I want to introduce an excel hero to you. He may not be wearing red cape or carrying latest ninja weaponry with him. But he is a hero. He can arm twist toughest sets of data to create beautiful (almost art like) charts or animations. He can a complex vba model and make it look lean, mean and clean.
Today, I want to introduce Daniel Ferry to you. I have been reading Daniel’s Excel Hero blog for the last few months. He writes a lot about advanced charting & vba and uses the blog to showcase how he plays with excel. The blog is true to its name and displays some of the most sophisticated excel trickery I have ever seen.
Here are a few examples of his outstanding work:
- An Excel Chess Game Viewer: In this beautiful animated chart, Daniel visualizes one of the popular chess games.
- NFL Drive Chart: A colorful animated chart showing an NFL game, step by step.
- Multi-threaded VBA: Discussion on techniques and approach to creating multiple threads thru VBA.
- Understanding Excel’s IF formula: an indepth view of excel’s if formula and faster alternatives to it.
- Celtic Muse: a fantastic animated chart showing Celtic muse art form in 78000 tiles… 😮
If you are an Excel enthusiast or hobby programmer, I recommend following Daniel’s blog (rss here) to get fresh ideas, inspiration and source workbooks on regular basis.
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I am not getting sound from the videos. I have checked all the settings and spent several hours searching the Internet to no avail.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Is there anyway to get the Grand Total to be broken out in the same fashion as the items above it? For instance, if you have in column 1, widget a, widget b, and have their sales by month in column 2, I'd like to see the grand total also be by month, for widget a & b combined.
I can't get anything other than a single line for the grand total, rather than the same format as the data above.
Widget A Month Sales
Jan 100
Feb 200
Widget B
Jan 150
Feb 250
Grand total - here I would also like to have Jan, Feb.
Jan 250
Feb 450