Recently I saw a excellent example of a really nice visual display of information by geographic region at the URL
http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/ch...e%20colors.htm
The concept used excel shapes, named ranges, some vba to piece together all the units to create a wonderfule dashboard design.
After reading it, I thought that I had to replicate it in my office and become one up on others. Unfortunately, while replicating, I seem to have goofed-up a little. The problem I am facing is described as under:
I have drawn shapes for different locations in excel. I have created a dropdown list to choose a company, wherein different shapes
would have different colors. The problem here is that some shapes get colored and some do not. I have tried to examine the shapes in details and couldn't find any broken paths in the shapes or may be I am unable to find how to locate broken paths in the shapes. eg. If I choose the company ICI from the dropdown, I get a list of all 15 location (shapes) that needs to be colored, whereas only 3 shapes of NCR, MP & Mumbai are showing colored and rest are not.
I am unable to comprehend the root cause of this inconsistency, and also while selecting other company I get similar issues. The excel file in which the working has been done is attached with the post.
Request help of excel gurus on this one.