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- Price: $169.00
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: January 17, 2008
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(From BonaVista Systems ):MicroCharts delivers an intuitive Excel add-in allowing you to create richer, more concise reports and dashboards with more information per square inch. Using the latest techniques in dashboard reporting, MicroCharts helps you generate data-rich tables and graphs as small as the size of words. This clear presentation helps business professionals quickly zoom in on trends in their data and ultimately make better business decisions.
Version 3 features: value axis for Bullet and Bar charts; new KPI icon graphics, facilitates Heatmaps; two series in one SparkLine; improved UI for many of the insertion dialogs.
Version 3.0 features: value axis for Bullet and Bar charts; new KPI icon graphics, facilitates Heatmaps; two series in one SparkLine; improved UI for many of the insertion dialogs.
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Version: MicroCharts 3.0
"Indispensable for Excel reports"
Pros: This software does exactly what it says it will do: generates attractive and informative small bar, line, or bullet charts that fit within a single Excel cell. It allows customization of colors, existence of reference lines, size of the chart, and so on. Compared to making small charts with Excel for many rows or columns, it is an amazing time saver. You can make a thousand rows of these little charts in the time it will take you to make one Excel chart --- and with Excel, you have to repeat the same work for every row. The license is ridiculously expensive but I have to say it paid for itself in the first week. Microcharts are now in all our deliverables.
Cons: There are a couple of things we dislike regarding the important "convert" function which turns all charts into images. Before being converted, the charts are basically formulas that use a special Microcharts font to create the graphics. When delivering a spreadsheet to someone who doesn't have Microcharts installed, the graphs must be converted to images using a built-in utility. Our problems with the utility are: 1) it can take a very long time to convert large numbers of microcharts, and during that time anything you do in Excel can result in a program freeze, 2) the converted images are usually smaller than your originals so the result isn't always what you want, 3) the converted images' sizes are not dependent on the cell size, so after conversion some of them end up at the top of left of their cell and for some reason they must be individually manually repositioned.
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