Category Archives: Charts

Numerical Integration; Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 4.42

Posted on March 17, 2019 by

Back to Newton and Excel. I recently received a new update to the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet from Graeme Dennes, which may be downloaded from: Tanh_Sinh Quadrature. From the Readme: The Tanh-Sinh quadrature workbook has been enhanced as follows: The Tanh-Sinh … Continue reading →

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Numerical Integration; Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 4.4

Posted on November 23, 2018 by

Update 27 Nov 2018: Version 4.41 now available from the link below, with minor modifications for compatibility with Excel 2007. I recently received a new version (4.4) of the numerical integration spreadsheet by Graeme Dennes which is now available for … Continue reading →

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Arcs and arc-splines

Posted on August 17, 2018 by

I have added two user defined functions (UDFs) to the IP2 spreadsheet to generate coordinates for a single  arc, or a series of arcs connected (if necessary) by straight lines.  The new version may be downloaded from: IP2.zip As an example … Continue reading →

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Plotting Charts With Gaps …

Posted on March 31, 2018 by

“How do you get VB6 to initialize doubles with +infinity, -infinity and NaN”… and various sorts of Not a Number. Back in 2012 (When is an xy chart not an xy chart) I concluded that it was not possible to … Continue reading →

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Using Matplotlib from Excel with xlwings – update

Posted on May 7, 2017 by

In February 2016 I posted a spreadsheet with examples of linking to the Python Matplotlib library with xlwings.  Since then updates to xlwings required some changes to the python code, specifically plot.show has been replaced with pictures.add. The spreadsheet has … Continue reading →

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Displaying trend line equations on line charts

Posted on April 16, 2017 by

This post is prompted by a recent comment at Using LINEST for non-linear curve fitting which found that the trend line formula displayed on a chart was totally different from that found using the Linest function. The problem was caused by using a … Continue reading →

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Editing Charts with the mouse

Posted on September 13, 2015 by

When editing chart ranges, to either change the limits of the range, or select a new column, I have been in the habit of either selecting a range and editing the text in the Formula Edit Bar, or right clicking, … Continue reading →

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