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Peltier Tech Charts for Excel 3.0

Custom Chart Types and Chart Formatting Tools for Microsoft Excel

Peltier Tech Charts for Excel - Advanced Edition

Peltier Tech Charts for Excel - Standard Edition

 
Office 365 for Windows and Mac.
Excel 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019 for Windows.
Excel 2016 and 2019 for Macintosh.
8 Custom Charts in Standard Edition.
22 Custom Charts in Advanced Edition.
Handy Functions and Features for Data Editing, Formatting, Exporting.
Easy to Install and Use.
Guaranteed.
Bulk Discounts Available.

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General Features of Peltier Tech Charts for Excel
 Office 365.
 
 Excel 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019 for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit).
 
 Excel 2016 and 2019 for Macintosh.
 
 Integrated into Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software as a standard add-in.
 
 Create complex charts in a few simple steps using intuitive dialogs.
 
 No programming or formula skills needed, no complicated instructions to follow.
 
 Easy to install, and the utility adds a custom tab to the Excel Ribbon.
 
 Copy and paste, move or resize the custom chart.
 
 Customize the finished chart with your own colors, fonts, and other formatting.
 
 Easily access this functionality from your own VBA programs.
 

But What Can It DO?

See documentation for details. Or read the Frequently Asked Questions.

Comparison of Features

Custom Charts 3.0 B Advanced 3.0 A Standard

Waterfall ✔ ✔

Stacked Waterfall ✔ ✔

Rotated Waterfall ✔

Dual Waterfall ✔

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 Split Bar Waterfall ✔

Paired Waterfall ✔

Box Plot ✔ ✔

Grouped Box Plot ✔

Cluster Stack ✔ ✔

Marimekko ✔ ✔

Cascade ✔ ✔

Dot Plot ("Classic") ✔ ✔

Dot Plot ✔

Dot Plot with Lines ✔

Lollipop Plot ✔

Dumbbell Plot ✔

Bungee Plot ✔

Quick XY Charts ✔ ✔

Diverging Stacked Bar ✔

Histogram ✔

Pareto Chart ✔

Cycle Plot ✔

Click on links to see example charts.

Features 3.0 B Advanced 3.0 A Standard

Edit Series Formula ✔ ✔

Label Last Point ✔ ✔

Match Label Colors ✔ ✔

Add Next Series ✔ ✔

Copy/Paste Series Formats ✔ ✔

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 Loess Regression ✔ ✔

Quadratic LOESS Regression ✔

Nice Cell Borders ✔ ✔

Nice Table Style ✔ ✔

Nice Pivot Table Style ✔ ✔

Open Parent Directory ✔ ✔

Export Chart to Image File ✔ ✔

Export Range to Image File ✔

Export Chart to PowerPoint ✔

Export Chart to Word ✔

Switch X and Y ✔

Error Bars ✔

Arrow Keys to Move/Resize ✔

Unpivot ✔

Clean Formats ✔

Convert to Cycle Plot ✔

NOTE: Several features (for example, exporting charts) are not yet available for Excel 2016 for Mac. When
enabled by Microsoft, they will be implemented in Peltier Tech Chart for Excel.

 
Documentation for the Peltier Tech Charts for Excel
Here are a few links of documentation for the Peltier Tech Charts for Excel.

 Installing the Utility

 
 Documentation Index
 
 Frequently Asked Questions
 
 Version History - email Peltier Tech to get up-to-date
 

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necessary.

 
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When you purchase more than one license (for one or multiple utilities), the following percentage discounts
are applied automatically to your entire order.

Please contact Peltier Tech if you need more licenses.

 
Discounts for Existing Users
If you are already a Peltier Tech customer, you qualify for a discount.

 If you use the Standard Edition of Peltier Tech Charts for Excel 3.0, you can upgrade to the Advanced
Edition for the differential in price ($20).
 If you use the earlier Peltier Tech Chart Utilities 2.0, you can upgrade at 50% off to either the
Standard ($39.50) or Advanced ($49.50) Edition.
 If you use any of the earlier standalone Peltier Tech Something Chart Utilities, you can upgrade for
25% off to either the Standard ($59.25) or Advanced ($74.25) Edition.

Contact Peltier Tech and request a coupon code to apply at checkout, or contact Peltier Tech after your
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Purchase Peltier Tech Charts for Excel

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 $79 US

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The Purchase Process is Quick and Easy
When your payment is approved, you will be directed to a web page with a download link. You will also
receive an email from Peltier Technical Services (jon@peltiertech.com) with a link to a download
page. If you do not receive this email, check that it has not been filtered out as spam, then contact Peltier
Tech.

 
The Utility is Downloaded as a Zip File
To account for possible connection problems, the download link remains valid for a period of 5 days or for up
to 5 downloads, whichever comes first. If you need to download the utility after this, contact Peltier Tech to
obtain a new link.

Note that the five allowed download attempts does not entitle the licensee to install the software on five
computers. The standard license requires one purchased license per user, and a user is allowed to install the
software on two computers.

If you have problems with the download or installation, please contact Peltier Technical Services.

Installation Instructions - Windows

Please see Installing the Utility.

 
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Add a Horizontal Line to a Column or Line

Chart: Error Bar Method.
 

How do you add a nice horizontal line to a column or line chart, to show a target value, or the series
average? The method involves adding a new one-point series with an error bar, applying it to the
secondary axes, and making the secondary axes disappear.

Use this data to make a column or line chart. The blank cell in the upper left of this range tells Excel
that "Value" is the series names, and the dates in the first column are the category (X axis) labels. (I
use dates in this example, but you could use any type of category labels.)

[blank] Value
11/11/02 15
11/10/02 16
11/9/02 16
11/8/02 10
11/7/02 14
11/6/02 9
11/5/02 10
11/4/02 8
11/3/02 6
11/2/02 4
11/1/02 3
10/31/02 3

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In a free section of your worksheet, set up a range with X and Y values corresponding to one endpoint
of your indicator line, shown below. The X value could be 0 or 1; I have used 1 to place the data point
and a corresponding data label to the right of the chart. We will use the secondary X axis for this line,
and scale its min and max to 0 and 1. The Y value corresponds to an average or other significant level
you want to indicate on the chart.

[blank] Average
1 9.5

Select and copy this range, select the chart, and from the Edit menu, choose Paste Special. Select the
New Series, Categories in First Column, and Series Names in First Row options. The new series has the
same style (Column or Line) as the first series.

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Right click on the new series "Average" and select Chart Type from the pop up menu. Choose the XY
Scatter type, subtype Scatter, markers without connecting lines. The series changes (I've formatted it
as a cross) and secondary axes appear on the chart.

Double click on the marker for the "Average" series. Click on the X Error Bars tab, select the Minus
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error bar, with a fixed value of 1. Double click on the resulting error bar, and on the Patterns tab,
select a color and line style for the horizontal line. Here I've chosen a solid red line.

Now it's time to neaten up the axes. Double click on the secondary X axis, and on the Scale tab, set 0
for Minimum and 1 for Maximum. On the Patterns tab, choose None for Major and Minor Tick Marks and
for Tick Mark labels to make the axis disappear.

Select the secondary Y axis and press Delete (or more formally: right click on the chart, choose Chart
Options from the Pop Up menu, click on the Axes tab, and uncheck the box for the Secondary Y Axis).

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All that may be left is some embellishing of the chart. I removed the legend, added data labels (Show
Values option) to the original series, and a data label to the last point of the horizontal line series. Then
I colored the label text to match the series color.

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VertizontalLine.zip is a zipped workbook that shows this technique and others for reliably placing a
vertical or horizontal line on your column or line chart, using a dummy series or a dummy error bar.
Here are some related pages on this site:

Add a Horizontal Line to a Column or Line Chart: Series Method.

Add a Vertical Line to a Column or Line Chart: Series Method.

Add a Vertical Line to a Column or Line Chart: Error Bar Method.

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