Sometimes I have a spreadsheet containing lots of spreadsheets of similar formats all using the same colour scheme. And if after a while I decide I don’t like the colours any more then it can be quite annoying to change all of the colours. So I decided to write this short little macro to change the colours.
Category: Excel
Mapping UK Cities and Towns in Excel
Continuing my theme of recreating spreadsheets I’ve seen on Clearly and Simply I’ve had a go at making an Excel map of UK cities and towns that can be highlighted to find their combined population.
Further explorations into choropleth maps in Excel
I’ve been trying to improve my Excel choropleth map spreadsheet from my first post.
The first thing I tried was to try to update it using some maps created on ClearlyandSimply.com. So I’ve created two new versions, one for Europe and one of the World. Both using the maps from ClearlyandSimply.com, with a few small alterations to the code so that on hovering over the map it tells you the country not the abbreviation. I did try to make my own UK maps of Constituency boundaries and Counties but using this technique but no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t get it to work. If you do get it to work, please let me know. Note that in both the Europe and World map the data may not be accurate and is only there for illustrative purposes.
Pivot Chart Tracker
I was setting up some trackers at work the other day using some OLAP cubes in Excel across a number of different variables (about 20) to track monthly sales which I could refresh each month. Once I’d set the sales tracker up I realised that I wanted to look at average price across the same variables so I made a copy of the spreadsheet and went through each of the pivot tables changing them to track average price. When I then wanted to look at sales mix (%sales that month) I thought there must be a better way so decided to write some VBA to do all of this for me.
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