Excel Pivot Table Tutorial -- Running Totals With a running total in a pivot table, you can see how amounts accumulate over a period of time, or through a range of products. To create a running total, use the Custom Calculation feature in a pivot table. In this pivot table tutorial, we'll focus on the Running Total custom calculation. In Excel 2010 and later versions, you can also use the % Running Total calculation, to show the current running total amount, divided by the grand total. Set up the Pivot Table Below is a pivot table which contains monthly sales figures for several products. Video: Create Running Totals To show running totals, you'll u se the Custom Calculation feature in Excel's pivot tables, as shown in this video tutorial.
FlowingData | Data Visualization, Infographics, and Statistics Filled Histograms Using Excel XY-Area Charts I recently showed how to create Histograms Using Excel XY Charts. This technique produces a human-friendly numerical X axis scale, which is easier to read and harder to be deceived by than the bin labels used by column chart histograms. The drawback of that technique is that it produces histogram bars in outline only, without a fill color. In this post I will show how to extend that technique to fill the bars, using the protocol from Fill Below an XY Chart Series with an XY-Area Combination Chart. I started with the data from Histograms Using Excel XY Charts. I added a row at the top of the data for the left edge of the chart, and another row at the bottom for the right edge of the chart. The calculated values in the middle column are based on the small table to the right. Area Value = Area Scale Min + (Time - Time Min) / (Time Max - Time Min) * (Area Scale Max - Area Scale Min) or something like this, depending on where the tables are in the worksheet: So let’s make the chart.
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