CP048: How to create animated charts in Excel?

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In the 48th session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s make some animated charts!!!

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What is in this session?

In this podcast,

  • Announcements
  • Why animate your charts?
  • Non-VBA methods to animate charts
    • Excel 2013’s built-in animation effects
    • Iterative formula approach
  • VBA based animation
    • Cartoon film analogy
    • Understanding the VBA part
  • Example animated chart – Sales of a new product
  • Resources and downloads for you

Listen to this session

Click here to download the MP3 file.

Resources for making animated charts

Example animated chart (shown in the title image):

Download example animated chart. Play with it to learn more.

More animated charts using Excel:

VBA Basics:

Non-VBA animation using formulas:

Animation without macros [for fun]

 

Transcript of this session:

Download this podcast transcript [PDF]

How do you create animated charts in Excel?

Now it’s your turn. Do you make animated charts? Please share your techniques and samples in the comments section. Wow us.

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2 Responses to “Weighted Sorting in Excel ”

  1. Oleg says:

    Just add a column calculating the "performance" or whatever is your criteria and sort by it? No?
    have no patience to waste 13min. Save your time too.

  2. Andrew says:

    Just thought I would mention, the "weird" custom sort behavior mentioned at 5:45 where "% return" doesn't appear to be sorting is because the "August Purchases" field has the sort preference and since these are such unique values, no additional sorting is possible on the "% return" field. If there were two entries that had the same "Customer Since" year AND the same "August Purchases" amount, THEN you would see a sorting of the "% return" on these two entries.

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