Category Archives: Excel

XY Chart problems – 2

Posted on 16/06/2020 by dougaj4

The previous chart post (XY Chart problems – 1) looked at problems plotting charts with very short data ranges.  An associated problem is plotting XY charts with data with gaps (see When is an XY chart not an XY chart …? and … Continue reading →

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XY Chart problems – 1

Posted on 12/06/2020 by dougaj4

I have looked at problems with XY charts displaying as Line charts previously at: When is an XY chart not an XY chart …? and Plotting Charts With Gaps … The charts shown below. and also in the next post, can be … Continue reading →

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Building dances to an earthquake’s beat

Posted on 28/05/2020 by dougaj4

Adam Pascale from the Seismology Research Centre recently shared this animation (click on controls bottom right for High Quality and Full Screen views): … it’s from a building in the Philippines about 130km (hypocentral distance) from a magnitude 6.1 earthquake … Continue reading →

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New sort functions and sorting to groups

Posted on 16/05/2020 by dougaj4

I first posted a user defined function (UDF) to sort spreadsheet or VBA data back in 2009.  Finally Microsoft have caught up, and Excel 365 subscribers now have two built in sort functions available: =SORT(array,[sort_index],[sort_order],[by_col]) =SORTBY(array, by_array1, [sort_order1], [by_array2, sort_order2],…) … Continue reading →

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Getting near matches from a list with Python

Posted on 19/04/2020 by dougaj4

To return a list of near matches from a long list of strings would be quite difficult in VBA (unless I’m missing something), but in Python it is very simple.  Here is the code for this operation, using pyxll to … Continue reading →

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