Chart cells with Formulas?

I am attempting to chart a row of calcuated percentages. When I select the row and create a 3D line chart its blank with no series. Why?

That's not a bug, Michael, it's the designed behaviour. Labels are picked up from the header row or column automatically, as may be seen in the example in my previous post.
Row 1, containing the labels, is a header row. Column A, containing the series label, is a header column. Note that the labels in this row appear as category axis labels on the chart, and the "Percentage" label in column A appears as the series label in the legend below the chart.
Apple provides some excellent documentation for Numbers; the Numbers '09 User Guide, downloadable via the Help menu in Numbers. As a newcomer to Numbers, you would benefit greatly by reading at least the first four chapters of this guide. With respect to your curent question, you'll find a more detailed answer in Chapter 7, Creating Charts from Data. The rest can be set aside for reference on an as needed basis.
If you are writing formulas for your spreadsheet documents, you will also want the iWork Formulas and Functions User Guide, available via the same route.
Regards,
Barry

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Simple "Find" question -- How to find values in cells with formulas?

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I don't find the answer. I have a table with values that are all computed via complex formulas. I want to FIND, say, when the value is 19. I can't find a way to do it: If I use the "find" command and type 19, the program finds when 19 is written INSIDE the formulas, e. g., it finds the cell where a formula is thus defined:
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but does NOT find the cell with VALUE 19.
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Cheers,
l.

My two cents:
Select the entire table.
Cells Inspector.
Define a rule like the one I uses here.
It will highlight the cells whose value matches the condition.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 26 mai 2008 17:53:33)

Charts with formulas

Post Author: archon4239
CA Forum: Charts and Graphs
I'm using Crystal Reports XI and I can't seem to use the chart functionality with formulas. I see detail formulas available in the chart wizard (data tab), but I don't see my sum formulas in the wizard. The sum formulas are based variables that total numbers in the group footer.
Anyway I can create charts with these formulas that sum up values in the group footer?

Post Author: acarey
CA Forum: Charts and Graphs
A big short coming with CR is that it doesn't let you chart WhilePrintingRecords formulas. I tore my hair out for a while with this one.
Eventually I found a document with a work around on the Business Objects website. Its a SERIOUS pain in the *** but it does work.
The Doc is for CR9 but I'm using XI and it works. The document is called cr9_charting_print_time.pdf. Unfortunately I can't remember the exact location but you should be able to search for it.
If anyone knows an easier way don't hesitate to TELL SOMEONE. The thing with these forums is that questions like this don't seem to get answered to often.
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Export to Excel with formulas

I have a requirement to produce reports that can be exported to Excel along with cell calculation formulas. The cell formulas will do the same calculations as done in the report. The reports will be created in our company using Oracle Reports, then exported to Excel for use by our customer. This is a government requirement (who else!) to allow them to do "what if" scenarios with the reported data. Is there any way to populate Excel worksheet cells with formulas as well as data? The reports will vary in length and content depending on user selections so I can't take a "one size fits all" approach.
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Can't you use the same library to do that? Apache POI for instance has formula support

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I have a table in my spreadsheet document, which contains working time details of my job. Column B is time of beginning, column D is time of stop. Both B and C columns are formatted as "date and time". In column E, there is a formula "=C2-B2", and so on for other rows, formatted automatically as "duration".
After a several rows (closing a month), in column F (at F14), there is a SUM formula of column E "=SUM(E2:E14)".
I tried to calculate the total sum for my monthly invoice at G14, with formula "=F14*6000", and i formatted this cell (G14) as Currency, but i see this cell as duration, after formatting the cell as currency too.
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Thanks, Badunit!
You saved my day
I switched from OpenOffice.org to iWork 2 weeks ago, and this duration format tricked me second time.
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Color fill only changes the border with formula cells

Color fill only changes the color of the border with formula cells. It works fine and changes the color of the entire cell with normal, non-formula cells. Anyone found a way around this problem?

Well, that's better. Thanks for the camera icon tip. That did the trick. However, that does lead to another minor gripe. I cut and pasted these parts of the screen shot into the reply window. They appeared and everything seemed in order. But obviously they didn't send. It looked like it was going to work nice and easy - Apple like. But it ended up requiring more steps and clicks - Microsoft like...
Anyway, as you can see, the cell with the RED expired has not filled with black like, rather the black appears on the border.

Referring to Cells in Formulas problem.

I have 2 Tables (and one chart) on one sheet. Table 1 has 3 columns viz. Dates, Electricity & Gas
The Dates column looks like this
01/01/11 - 31/01/11
01/02/11 - 28/02/11
01/03/11 - 31/03/11
01/04/11 - 30/04/11
etc etc
Table 2 calculates the number of gas units and kWh of electricity used during the date intervals in Table 1. What I've (unsuccessfully) tried to do is when Table 2 calculates the number of gas units and kWh of electricity these are automatically entered in the appropriate cell next to the relevant date interval in Table 1.
For example in Table 2 the number of Gas units is calculated in cell D11 and the kWh of electricity in cell I11 for a particular date interval corresponding to that in Table 1. The data in Table 2 are manually entered for each date interval given in Table 1. What I would like to do is get Numbers to automatically enter the value that is calculated in cells D11 & I11 in Table 2 into the appropriate cells in Table 1 e.g. for 01/01/11 - 31/01/11 the cells in Table 1 would be C4 & D4 for 01/02/11 - 28/02/11 the cells in Table 1 would be C5 & D5 and for 01/03/11 - 31/03/11 the cells in Table 1 would be C6 & D6 and so on up to 01/12/11 - 31/12/11 whose cells would be C15 & D15.
I've tried doing what is suggested in the *'Referring to Cells in Formulas*' help page but I must be doing something wrong as it just isn't working for my Sheet and Tables. If anyone can hopefully understand my problem and point to a solution I'd be very grateful.
If anyone wants a copy of the sheet to play around with they are more than welcome to have it it's just that I don't know how to make it available on this forum or show the tables as they are set out here on the forum.
Thanks
Thanks

As Yvan said, it can't be done the way you want. I personally like to have the backup data behind calculations whenever possible, versus overwriting the older data. I would use separate tables instead of a single Table 2.
I can't quite figure out your "dates". Is it one column or two? For example, is "01/01/11 - 31/01/11" in a single cell? I'm going to assume that's how it is and that it is column A.
Here is how I might do it:
1) I would move Table 2 to a different sheet (Sheet 2) and give it a name _exactly the same as the first period in column A_. In other words, it would be named "01/01/11 - 31/01/11" (without the quotes). This table will be for this period only. I would also go to the inspector and click "name" so the table name is shown above the table.
2) In Sheet 1, Table 1 (your Table 1) I would use the following formula in what you said was column C and a similar one for column D
=IFERROR(INDIRECT("Sheet 2::'"&A&"'::I11"),"")
Note that '"&A&"' has triple-quotes around it. The first one is an apostrophe followed by a quote. The second is a quote followed by an apostrophe. The apostrophes are required due to some of the characters being used in the table names. Normally you wouldn't need them.
3) For the next month, duplicate Table '1/01/11 - 31/01/11' by right clicking on it in the sidebar and choosing "duplicate". Reposition the duplicate on your sheet, rename it with another set of dates (make sure it matches exactly; copy/paste can be your friend), and enter the data for that period. Table 1 will find it automatically.

Different format in one cell by formula?

Hi there,
does someone know if it is possible to grab and connect text with the & operator and set different formats (bold, italic...) with a command in the formula?
For example I have different lines in one cell done with the CHAR(10) and want to have the last line in bold format. Is this kind of manipulation possible?

As far as I know, there is no such function.
We may apply different styles in a cell by hand, not by a formula.
I checked that the concatenation of the contents of cells with different styles result with a string in standard style.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 13 décembre 2008 19:44:03)

Iam using a table in numbers to plot daily graph lines. If I fill a cell with a text box at say zero it plots the graph. I can't actually set the cell value until the actual day but the graph plots it at zero when I don't want it to plot anything. Is tho

I am using a table in Numbers to plot daily graph lines. Mood swings of how I am on the day, i"m a depressive.
If I fill a cell with a step box at say zero it plots the graph. I can't actually set the cell value until the actual day but the graph plots it at zero when I don't want it to plot anything. Is there a work around. so thatbgraph only plots on the day?

The answer is (sort of) in your subject, but edited out of the problem statement in the body of your message.
When you use a stepper or a slider, the value in the cell is always numeric, and is always placed on the chart if that cell is included in the range graphed by the chart.
But if you use a pop-up menu cell, you can specify numeric or text values in the list of choices for in the menu. Numeric values will be shown on the chart. Text values will not.
For the example, the values list for the pop-up menu was:
5
3
1
Choose
-1
-3
-5
The first pop-up was set to display Choose, then the cell was filled down the rest of the column. Any text value (including a single space, if you want the cell to appear blank) may be used instead of Choose.
For charts with negative Y values, the X axis will not automatically appear at Y=0. If your value set will include negative values, I would suggest setting the Y axis maximum and minimum to the maximum and minimum values on your menu list, rather than letting Numbers decide what range to include on the chart. Place a line shape across the chart at the zero level, and choose to NOT show the X axis.
Regards,
Barry

Numbers point to a cell with different formatting to create conditional format

Hi all, not sure if this has been brought up but my search efforts haven't found anything. I know conditional formatting is not supported in IOS numbers but I saw a buddy do a little trick a while ago and I've been trying to replicate it. On his iPad, he created a numbers spreadsheet that had a logic function (=if). And if that function was true it pointed to another cell with different formatting. The result was, the cell would become the same format as the cell it was pointing too. This created the effect of a conditional format in a sense. I can get this to work with limited effect, only if the cell is a "text" cell and not a formula. As well the background colour doesn't get picked up, only the format of the cell text itself. I'm trying to get in touch with him for help but in the mean time does anyone have any experience in this kind of method?
Cheers

As an example:
If A > B, then A-B, otherwise make it equal this other cell (D1 for example)
{=if(a1>b1,a1-b1,d1)}
And in that d1 cell I would make another formula that also does the same subtraction (a1-b1) however knowing it will be a negative number this time, I paint the cell bright red and hopefully the original cell will then look the same since it is now equal to this one.
Unfortunately it looks like this wont work. The closest thing to doing this trick I have found is pointing to a cell formatted as text, such as a blank cell. Then the original cell takes on the formatting characteristics of the text cell. The problem is the text cell is useless since it can't do any sort of math. I can't even set the cell to simply equal another one and format it as text only. So far it looks like the only conditional type of trickery I can do is make the numbers disappear by pointing to a blank text cell.
I hope that helps describe it a little better.

Fill in blank cells with a "junk" value

Greetings
If I have a table with 20 columns, and some rows that have data in varying numbers of the columns
Col1 Col2 Col3 etc
1
4 4 4
3 3
How can I fill in the blank cells with a junk value, say ffff?
I figure its going to involve the IF and IFBLANK functions, but I'm missing something. Perhaps I need to have it fill in a secondary table, instead of trying it with the "live data" table?
Thanks!

If you are trying to do it in the same table you will have to pre-fill all cells with a formula or fill in the blank cells with a formula such as RAND. ISBLANK will not work in this case because you can't have a cell checking itself.
You could do this in a separate table with a formula such as
A1=IF(Table 1:: A1 = "", 10*RAND(), Table 1:: A1) and fill this to all the other cells in that table.

Can i print a spreadsheet with formulas?

Can I print a spreadsheet with formulas instead of the product of the formula?

As Wayne wrote, you may print the document with the list of formulas but sometimes I use an other scheme.
(a) duplicate the document
(b) select the entire table(s)
(c) apply the format 'Text'
(d) ajust cells size to display the entire formulas
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Suppress Missing Data not work in web form with formula column inside

Dear All,
I've a planning web form with formula column inside to calculate the variance and % variance. But missing cell can't be suppressed, although I've checked the 'Suppress Missing Blocks' and 'Suppress Missing Data' options.
Anyone have face the same problem..?? and how to fixed it..??
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There is a known issue that sounds like the problem you are experiencing
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John
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How do I duplicate row or column with formulas?

I've never been a big spreadsheet user but I recall being able to intuitively (the only time ever with a MS product) find a way to duplicate a row or column in Excel so that it would replicate the same formulas as the row/column immediately adjacent to it. Can this be done with Numbers?
Example: Say I've got a row that has values across with a Sum Total cell and an Average cell calculated with formulas. I'd like to add other rows below so they inherit the same formulas (referencing cells in the new rows). I'm already getting irritated just thinking about having to assign formulas over and over again with each new row.
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Average of a set of numbers, excluding empty cells (but including cells with a value of zero)

Hi, I have two tables in my spreadsheet (a personal budget) showing all my expenses spread over time. In the first table, each column is a month and year, each row is a type of expense (gas, rent, groceries, etc).
October 2013
November 2013
December 2013
February 2014
Income
3000.00
3200.00
2800.00
Gas
85.00
95.00
75.00
Rent
1200.00
1200.00
1200.00
Groceries
110.00
130.00
150.00
Eating Out
92.00
76.00
80.00
Clothes
0.00
90.00
30.00
The second table is this month's expenses so far (I enter the figures for "X Month, So Far" in a third table, which doesn't factor in here).
December 2013, So Far
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Income
2800.00
-200.00
Gas
75.00
-15.00
Rent
1200.00
0
Groceries
150.00
+30.00
Eating Out
80.00
-4.00
Clothes
30.00
-15.00
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Also, when calculating the average, I would want the formula to exclude the current month, which is entered automatically in the next column.
I would need a formula I wouldn't have to change every month. Can you help?

Hi sk,
"The key is that I want it to add all the sums from a particular row with any value in their cells, even if it's zero. For instance, all of the examples above would divide the sums by two - even the row for Clothes, which has a cell with 0.00, but I would need that to count as a value."
What you've described is the default condition for AVERAGE over a range of cells—any cell containing a numerical value is included, and cell that is empty or contains a text value is ignored. Here are some examples:
Creating a constant formula that will ignore the current (and future) month(s) can be done by ensuring that the amounts in the current month are seen as Text, rather than as numbers, as I've done in column C of row 6.
This can be done using a formula to transfer amounts from the 'third table' you mention to the first table in your example (showing monthly expenses for earlier months and partial totals for the current month). The formula would use IF to add text to the begining or end of the totals IF the column was for the current month, but to transfer of=nly the monthly totals for previous months.
=IF(earlier-month,"xx"&formula,formula)
Both instances of formula are the same—whatever formula you are currently using to transfer the amounts to this tabe.
An alternate method would be to add a second header row to the top of the forst table, and place checkboxes into thoes cells. Check the box when you want to incude that column's values in the averages.
For this method, AVERAGE would be replaced with AVERAGEIF, with the 'IF' condition a simple reference to the row of checkbox cells. As each month passed, the only change needed would be to check the box in the just-passed month's column.
Regards,
Barry

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