Looking for some help or to be pointed in the right direction. Been stuck on this for a while and the main issue is I don't even know where to start. I am sure there is a solution but my brain will not see it.
To use as an example I have a table that shows monthly results for multiple different areas:
What I want to do is in the gap along side each number is show an increase, decrease or no change, using up arrow down arrow and square. That I can do using conditional formatting my issue comes with the fact that I also want it to be multiple Colours. So it will take into account increase and decrease and whether they are in target.See below:
Atm I am copying and pasting each month. But having it automated would be amazing. The outcome would hopefully look like this:
I am hoping there is a way that I can do two things compare to the previous month and then check it against my table to see where it sits then display the appropriate symbol.
Thank you in advance for any help or a place to start.
So extremely easy to figure out once I looked at it in a simplistic way.
Firstly, I used: =IF(-SIGN(E26-G26)= 0, "n", IF(-SIGN(E26-G26)=1, "é", IF(-SIGN(E26-G26)=-1, "ê","")))
To compare the current number to the previous number and get a 1, 0 or -1 depending on if it had gone up down or stayed the same, using this it either displays é, n or ê. I then set the font on these cells to Wingdings. so they become up arrow, down arrow and a square.
Then I use conditional formatting to colour it based on the adjacent cells value.
No need for a long, complex formula
=IF(A2>A1,"t",IF(A2<A1,"u","v")) - set the font to Marlett
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I have a table with values in it. I want to be able to immediately spot the cells with the biggest values. Using the color scale tool works nicely as demonstrated below
However, with my real data, there are a few cells that have huge values in it - these then raise the maxpoint so high that the formatting kind of breaks for the other values since in relation to the maxpoint, the other values are very small, making the colors among them almost indistinguishable.
I have obtained the second-highest value by doing =large(A1:C3,2) in an unrelated cell - however I seem to be unable to reference that cell in the Maxpoint setting. Is there a way?
Another idea was to manually set up a color scale that is more logarithmic in its curve but this really isn't a nice option I think. The only option that's left that I can think of is to dynamically color the cells via a script - is there already an easier or existing solution?
try like this:
=LARGE($A$1:$C$3; 2)
I am writing a vba macro that checks that word documents are formatted correctly to meet certain specifications. One of the things I have to check for are the left margins of each line - different paragraphs are supposed to have different first indents and hanging indents depending on the context. This should be as simple as checking the style, but unfortunately it is not - some of the documents use styles to change the indents, but others use manual spaces and tabs to position the text correctly. So I need some way to check the actual physical position of the first physical character in each Document.Paragraphs. I have no problem getting a range with the first visible character in the paragraph, but I'm not sure about getting the distance from the margin (or from the left side of the page - doesn't make a difference because the margins are consistent).
I found the Window.GetPoint method, but I'm nervous to use it, because that is based on the actual physical location on the screen. This macro is going to be used on different computers, with different versions of word, and I'm not sure about how it is affected by other view settings (like print layout, zoom, etc.) Is there a consistent way to use this method to determine the distance from the margin?
The other method would be (because all of the documents are in Courier New 12) to look at the firstindent property of the style, and the count manually all of the spaces and tabs (but that would need to take into account tabstops). This I'm also not sure how to do.
I would think that there should be a much simpler way of doing this, but I can't find it, so if anyone has any suggestions I would really appreciate any help.
It was there after all! Range.Information(wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage)
Hello I'm original using highcharts
because my clients has need to see different view based on time,
like 1day,2day,3day,7day,1month, so I figure out highstock is more resemble
to this, but using highstock is missing some feature.
while I successfully figure out how to add legend(legend), change point display
(tooltip:formatter), change xaxis display and navigator display(dateTimeLabelFormats),
I see the display of line just like stock, which means:
it doesn't consider the absolute value of which too much, like I have connected terminals varying from 8-10, registered terminals varying from 2-3, unfornately it will draw registered terminals above connected terminals, which doesn't quite make sense, (besides the yAxis display is not correct, when it draw 5, the point above which actually says 4..), I also tried
plotOptions: {series: {compare: 'percent'}},
and
plotOptions: {series: {compare: 'percent'}},
but doesn't work, the y Axis is still quite confusing,
does anybody has a good solution? Thanks.
Had the same issue recently. It basically come from leaving useless parts of the example code in :D
Taking out the
plotOptions: {series: {compare: 'percent'}},
part should make it use the absolute values.
I assume taking out the compare parameter alone should be enough as well but since its the only thing you set from the plotOptions there is no need to keep the rest.
I need to compute the width of a column with many rows (column AutoSize feature). Using Canvas.TextWidth is far too slow.
Current solution: My current solution uses a text measurer class that builds a lookup table for a fixed alphabet once and then computes the width of a given string very fast by adding up character widths retrieved from the lookup table. For characters not contained in the lookup table, the average character width is used (also computed once).
Problem: This works well for European languages but not for Asian languages.
Question: What's the best way to tackle this problem? How can such an AutoSize feature be realized without the relatively slow Canvas functions and without depending on a specific alphabet?
Thanks for any help.
You said you want to get the maximum text width for a column. Can't you, say, take only the 4 or 5 longest strings and get their widths? That way you won't have to find the width for all items and can save quite some time.
Or you use your cache to find the rough length of the strings and then refine that by getting the actual width for the top 4 or 5 items you found.
I don't think it matters a lot whether you use Canvas.TextWidth or GetTextExtentPoint32. Just use one of these to get the exact widths, after you used one of the methods above to guesstimate the longest/widest strings.
To those who think this doesn't work
If the poster of the original question thinks it could work, I have no reason to think it won't. He knows best what kind of strings can be in the columns he has.
But that is not my main argument. He already wrote that he does a preliminary textwidth by adding the predetermined individual widths of the characters. That does not take into account any kerning. Well, kerning can only make a string narrower, so it still makes sense to check only the top 4 or 5 items for the exact width. The biggest problem that can occur is that the column could be a few pixels too wide, no more. But it will be a lot faster than using TextWidth or GetTextExtentPoint32 or similar functions on each entry (assuming more than 5 entries), and that is what the original poster wanted. I suggest that those who don't believe me simply try it out.
As for using the pure string length: even that is probably good enough. Yes, 'WWW' is probably wider than '!!!!!', but the original poster will probably know best wat kind of string material he has, and if it is feasible. '!!!!!' or 'WWW' are not the usual entries one expects. Especially if you consider that not only one single string is checked, but the longest 4 or 5 strings (or whatever number turns out to be optimal). It is very unlikely that the widest string is not among them. But the original poster can tell if that is possible or feasible. He seems to think it is.
So stop the downvoting and try it out for yourself.
I'm afraid you have to use Canvas.TextWidth, or your implementation will be imprecise. The width of text depends on the font kerning, where different character sequences may have different widths (not just the total of individual character widths).
Me, I cut out the middle-man and use the Windows API directly. Specifically, I use GetTextExtentPoint32 with the .Handle of the Canvas. There's nothing you can do to be faster, other than caching results in some way, and frankly you'll just add overhead.
I am a beginner at ActionScript3, and for my learning purpose, I am trying to build a match3 kind of game. I am making is a clone of bejeweled kind of game. but instead of swapping, I have to delete those elements and shift the upper elements down and add new elements above those shifted elements.
I am able to delete matched elements and after matching I'm removing those elements but I am stuck with the shifting code. I am not able to shift those elements down.
I believe that you should take a look at Richard Lord's Tetris source code as your game may be somehow similar in mechanics to Tetris. Tetris shifts down rows when you get lucky.
Richard Lord is one of the Flash Gurus and his way of doing things may seem pretty advanced for a starter like you. Take a look over the source code and see if it fits you. What I can tell is that this is the proper way to make a game but maybe it's not the best point to start for a novice like you that is in urgent need.
http://www.richardlord.net/blog/actionscript-3-tetris-source-code
I would approach it like this in 2 parts.
Loop through your array of board positions starting from the bottom row and check for an empty unoccupied slot, if you find one do another loop through the row above till you find a piece on the same column. If you find a piece on the row above apply a tween to move it down to the empty slot and continue your loop.
Once you have looped through all rows, and animated all the tweens you need to loop through again to find all the gaps that need gems dropped into them. Create new elements at those positions and then move them up by (element height * row), apply another tween to animate them back to their starting position.