A strange one, but bear with me... If I copy coloured cells from Excel into a graphics program (in the screenshot I'm using Inkscape), the cells are pasted as individual objects (which is what I want) but they appear to overlap. I'm trying to make it so that when I paste the cells they do not overlap.
I've tried different settings in Inkscape (snap to grids etc) but am having no luck. I've also tried to see if there's a setting in Excel that would help, but again no luck.
The overlapping may be due to your Excel version. I am using Excel 2007, but I don't get overlapping cells. Please look the below images.
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I am trying to create a dashboard which has multiple visualizations(charts) out of which one is multiple small bar charts with 7 items and it is taking up the entire space. If I shrink the visual it is shrinking but giving me scroll bar and my business doesn't want a scroll option and want everything in one glance
Any way to shrink/compress the window or expand the Powerbi page or so? OR any way to shrink the small multiple bar charts visual to one real small and concise chart
Thanks,
Vyas
On bar charts you can use the properties to help squeeze the most out of your screen space (see image below). However, if you find you are trying to squeeze too much on a screen, consider:
Reducing the amount of data to show, too much data is hard to consume
Using drill through and drill down (and training your audience how to use this)
Using tool tip visuals
Separate reports for separate audiences (maybe sales and production need two different views)
Using tables with conditional formatting to show bars.
Using matrices to have aggregations and drill downs.
I'm trying to graph some things in C++ and Koolplot seems like a very simple and suitable library to do so with. I'm stuck, however, on finding some documentation about it that allows me to fullscreen the application (or resize it like you can do so on lots of applications, chrome, word, discord...). As well as this, I can't find or see how i can allow the user to drag the graph around with the mouse as well as zooming into a point of a scatterplot or function. If anyone has any ideas about these things i'd appreciate it, thanks.
The short reply is: cannot do.
Koolplot uses for drawings of the charts a modernized version of the venerable BGI driver. It was invented once upon a time, when personal computers were still running on some DOS version. Those times the graphics were full screen, hence of fixed size. This particularity was kept in the modernized WinBGIm library.
Zooming or panning properly a chart present on the screen require access from the drawing/painting routines of Koolplot to the data to be shown. This is not the case. If you look once again in the source code, you will note that in the implementation efforts were made to keep separated data to be plot from the actual drawing on the screen.
In conclusion, to do what you want, you will have to modify WinBGIm such that it manages correctly a drawing surface of variable dimensions and modify koolplot such that data to be shown is owned by (or aggregated with) Plotstream class.
I have two comboboxes, one beneath the other, on my ribbon with different lengths of texts. This makes the spacing uneven and I would like to correct that and hopefully allow more space between the two as well. Are there any easy ways to this or is it a limitation of MFC?
Current situation:
Ideal situation:
I was able to accomplish what you want by setting two properties for the panel:
Center Column Vertical = true
Justify Columns = true
The ribbon displayed correctly as you wanted when I tested it in Visual Studio. However, it did not display correctly initially. After starting the application, I had to change the style to any other style before the change would take effect. I think that's because of the tight coupling of the Workspace settings in the registry.
I'm developing a Qt application and it's currently in an internal beta test. One member of the company has Windows configured to display text larger than its normal size, which breaks my UI. The About page, for example, currently looks like this:
but under his settings, looks like this (note the clipped text):
Coming from a C#/Winforms background, I'm amazed that I can't seem to find some easily configurable label property such as Form.AutoSize that will automatically size the labels to fit their containing text. I've tried messing with sizePolicy, scaledContents, and a few other properties, but none seem to do this.
I've come across various threads (such as this one) which give instructions for scaling the text to the label, but I want to do the opposite - scale the label to the text to facilitate for those with enlarged text settings like my co-worker. Is there a straightforward way to do this?
There are at least three solutions to this problem.
Use layouts. Their contents are scaled according to the size of the window.
Make a code which is executed whenever window size is changed. In that code, you get the width of the longest text in the window (How?)(another way) and then set window wider than that.
Do the same as in solution #2, but execute the code only when the dialog is shown. After that, alter the window properties so that its size cannot be changed.
I'm trying to automate some PowerPoint charts, but I'm having problems preserving some formatting.
When I add a chart using a chart template, the chart doesn't use the slides color scheme, but rather the colors it was saved with. It doesn't help to change the color scheme for the slide - the chart isn't updated. To make the chart update to the color scheme of the slide, I have to clear formatting for the chart. The problem with doing this is that all font sizes are automatically set to 18pt. I cannot find any easy way restore the font sizes for the chart without saving all sizes before calling clear, and set them back after clearing.
Have you looked into using the Format Painter function it may or may not work depending on a variety of factors from my quick look on the net (google it for lots of articles).
Also if you've done one chart you should be able to copy the formatting from one chart to another using the paste special option as mentioned here http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/there-format-painter-equivalent-use-many-charts-t3611646.html .