How-to automatically select and chart the highest 10 totals?

**hopeace** · 10-13-2005, 01:45 PM

I have a list of totals, around 25. I only want to chart a selection of these totals- only the top 10.

I'm creating this spreadsheet for a group of non-techie school counsellors. Can this whole process of sorting be automated? I know how to make the chart, I'm just stuck on where do i get the top ten list.

Thank you so much for reading! Mutual help fourms and communities are awesome!!!

keith

**swatsp0p** · 10-13-2005, 02:38 PM

try this formula:

=LARGE($A$1:$A$25,1) will return the largest value in your range
=LARGE($A$1:$A$25,2) will return the second largest value in your range and so on up to
=LARGE($A$1:$A$25,10) for the tenth largest value.

NOTE: ties will be repeated as many times as they appear. e.g.
1,2,3,3 will show 3 as largest AND second largest, 2 will be third largest.

Plot the results of the formulas.

Good Luck

**hopeace** · 10-13-2005, 02:58 PM

Brillant! Thanks for your help. A very good day to you!

keith

bj · 10-13-2005, 04:05 PM

set of a set of cells with
=large(range,1)
to
=large(range,10)
this will give you the top ten in order

"hopeace" wrote:

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> I have a list of totals, around 25. I only want to chart a selection of
> these totals- only the top 10.
>
> I'm creating this spreadsheet for a group of non-techie school
> counsellors. Can this whole process of sorting be automated? I know how
> to make the chart, I'm just stuck on where do i get the top ten list.
>
>
> Thank you so much for reading! Mutual help fourms and communities are
> awesome!!!
>
> keith
>
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**swatsp0p** · 10-13-2005, 04:11 PM

I'm glad it worked for you. Thanks for the feedback, it is always appreciated.

Cheers!

**hopeace** · 10-13-2005, 07:26 PM

Creating the formula for the top ten worked great! New issue:

How do I chose the aligned category or title of each of the chosen top ten, so that I can include it in the chart I will make?

=LARGE($A$23:$A$57,1) through to =LARGE($A$23:$A$57,10) is what i used.

The titles are in C23:C57

Thanks!!!

keith

ScottO · 10-13-2005, 09:05 PM

Another approach you could use, which I think would also solve your
new question, is to create your chart as normal, but then apply an
AutoFilter to your data and use the filter option Top Ten.
If you want the data sorted, you could do that too.
hth
ScottO

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| ten, so that I can include it in the chart I will make?
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| =LARGE($A$23:$A$57,1) through to =LARGE($A$23:$A$57,10) is what i
| used.
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| The titles are in C23:C57
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| Thanks!!!
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**swatsp0p** · 10-14-2005, 09:06 AM

You may also want to try a VLOOKUP. In the column next to your LARGE formulas (I'll assume these are in D1:D10), enter this:

E1 =VLOOKUP(D1,$A$23:$C$57,3,0) and copy this down through E10.

Set this as the range (E1:E10) for your chart titles.

Good Luck.