Heat Map Chart through Radio Button in Excel

Heat Map Chart through Radio Button in Excel-

If we wish to highlight Top and bottom values in excel along with colour, rather than finding it manually, simply we will use conditional formatting.

Today we will discuss a different way to highlight Top & Bottom values with radio button along with colours. Are you Excited! Let’s get started.

Before going to start the process, firstly we have to understand-

What is a radio button?

A Radio button allows the user to select an option which updates a report. It’s also called option button.

How to use a radio button?

We can get this button under the developer tab. To Add developer tab in excel, follow the steps-

For ms-office 2007-

Office button-> Excel Option-> In the option Popular-> check mark “Show Developer tab in Ribbon”

For Ms-Office 2010 or Upper version-

File->Option->customize ribbon -> check mark Developer -> Ok

Go to Ribbon Tab-> Developer tab -> Insert-> Form control –> Select Radio button

Now everything is in order, let’s start the process step by Step-

Step1- Insert two radio buttons-

• Developer Tab
• Insert
• Radio button or Option button
• Give them a name (Top_10 and Bottom_10)

Radio Button Properties-

• Right click on a button
• Format control
• Mark on checked
• Select cell address (H2) to create a link with radio button
• Ok

Note: Follow the same process for the next button

Note: As explained above, we make a link with cell address (H2), when we click on heading Top_10, we can see that Cell address (H2) showing Numerical 1 and when we click on next heading bottom_10, it’s showing 2. Now H2 is behaving like a base cell for both buttons.

Step2-

• Select the data set without headings
• Conditional formatting
• New rule
• Click on “use a formula to determine which cell to format”
• Type this formula

• =IF($H$2=1,IF(B2>LARGE($B$2:$E$13,10),TRUE,FALSE))
• Format-> Fill-> Choose colour
• Ok

This formula visualizes that Top_10, for bottom_10 follow the same process as explain above and apply this formula

–=IF($H$2=2, IF(B2<=SMALL($B$2:$E$13,10),TRUE,FALSE))

Click and choose any button and see the effect.

Follow the process and we can easily apply this effect on any Dashboard or report.

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