How to Create a Dynamic Chart Range in Excel using Dropdown

Looking to create dynamic, user-interactive charts in Excel? This video is a must-watch! It's part of our online Excel dashboard course, perfect for anyone keen on elevating their Excel skills.

✨ 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.

Improve your Excel dashboards by adding in dynamic charts that allow the user to control what they want to see.

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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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[gjones]

Leila, I just discovered your channel, and these videos are rapidly changing the way I work! They are incredibly useful, and your demonstrations are easy to follow. Thank you!

[sunnyskinny]

Leila, you are really so amazing! Thanks so much for putting this video together. All of your videos are so practical and you are my life saver :)

[rehmajr]

Thank you for this video. It explained perfectly what I was trying to wrap my head around.

[LJO_Hurts_Pianos]

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!

[davidobrien]

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.

[rajnajat]

Absolute mint !
You really explain things simply.
Thanks a lot for your time and effort

[michaelb]

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

[YvesAustin]

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!!

[Egenzel]

This is just great. You make it so simple. Thank you very much!!

[kekiir]

Pure GOLD! Thanks for the video, super use full!!!

[timrice]

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)

[arulthangavelu]

Thank you Madam, The content was well explained and easy to understand

[nishadshivprakash]

Mind blowing. Thats, what I was searching.
Thanks

[TubeWeasel]

Thanks Leila. This video was very helpful and provided me with just what I needed.

[aishukumar]

Hi Leila! I spent 2 whole days trying to figure this out and your video helped me so much! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[unmeshrajhans]

Excellent, loved the simplified way to teaching. Thanks a lot Leila.

[jacquesabboud]

WAW - I Like it so much. that's the first time I learn several new out of the box tool in Excel. thank you.

[rickblunt]

WOW! that makes it so much easier - thanks for making it easy to understand, and I appreciate you explaining why you were doing what your were as you worked it out.

[soumensarkar]

Very well explained with hands on example on the fly.

[craigvoss]

the things you teach and the way you present, amazing.