How to Create a Dynamic Chart Range in Excel using Dropdown

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✨ Key Highlights:
▪️ Create Expandable & Contractible Charts: Learn how to make charts that adjust based on user-selected date ranges.
▪️ Bypassing Excel Chart Limitations: Discover tricks to overcome Excel's restrictions on using formulas in chart ranges.
▪️ Utilizing Index Function & Named Ranges: Master the use of the Index function and named ranges for dynamic chart data.
▪️ Data Validation for User Selection: Implement drop-down lists for date selection to make your charts user-friendly.
▪️ Transforming Data into Excel Tables: Understand the benefits of converting data sets into Excel tables for auto-updating charts.
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In this lecture you will learn how to create a dynamic chart ranges - assume your raw data table is quite big and you'd like the user to specify from which category or date - and to which category & date, they'd like to view the chart data from.
Excel Offset function is one formula that you can use to create dynamic ranges, but Excel's Index formula is a great alternative to the OFFSET function AND it's not a volatile function. Once we've figured out the right INDEX formula, we will copy and paste this into name manager and use the name for our chart range. This will provide us with a dynamic chart that only shows the user the range they'd like to view.
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This is amazing, just added this technique to a massive vibration data spreadsheet which previously took one months worth of data (about 8 columns and 5000+ rows) where the graphs had set ranges for the month, and allowed it to pick and chose between the start date and end of the data set and update all of the graphs accordingly, so I can show 1 week, 2 weeks, 4 days...without manipulating the graphs every single time to reference new rows where that data ends. Love it.

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This is exactly what I need and it is so well explained! Thank you.

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I was struggling with a similar chart using OFFSET() as the named range rather than INDEX(), but couldn't figure out the 'sheet name' requirement in the chart series name. You saved my day !! Thank you!!

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Thanks for the INDEX:INDEX fun : )

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Hi 🧡also we can use Offset: Offset😉

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Thank you SO much! This is exactly what I've been looking for, to a T -- how to chart [profits/losses/etc.] by dates using drop-down lists and a dynamic chart. This is great!

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Thank you for this, many things here I had not tried before. I copied your method, and then changed to the table like you did. I then used ‘Structured Table names’ to create the references in Name Manager, which I think makes things a little easier to read. (Making the dynamic array now ‘Spills’, so it looks a bit different to the video, but works exactly as you show it)

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Thanks for the instructions. I made this a truly dynamic chart by avoiding the user selected start-end dates. My dates are in column C. Special Note: Both of the Start-End Dates MUST be in the column data set or the function: Index(Match):Index(Match), will display "#N/A" End date: H3=LOOKUP(9.99E+307,C:C) Returns the next largest value if the 9.99E+307 is NOT found. Start-End Date delta: J2=30 (or any other integer value) Start Date: H2=LOOKUP((H3-J2),C:C)

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