Geocoding will allow me to show a phenomena on a map based on a city or a country name. Than I pressed “Text to Columns” button in the DATA tab and I came up with the following table. Selected the table in a web browser and copied it directly to Excel. For the purpose of this tutorial I took a list of the largest agglomerations by population from Wikipedia. Geocoding is a process which allows you to pinpoint a geographic location based on a description e.g. address, city name, postal code, country name etc. Today lets focus on another great option of the plugin – geocoding. In this method you need to have two separates columns for latitudes and longitudes. There are a couple of cool things you can do with that and we will cover it in the future #GeoawesomeHoTo. Power Map gives a couple of options to visualise it. Now everything should work fine. The most difficult part is behind us:). Now select Microsoft Power Map and click on OK button to activate it. You should the following window: In the dropdown list on the bottom of the window select COM Add-ins and click GO. To do that go to File -> Option -> Add-Ins. If you don’t see it you might need to activate it in Add-Ins menu.
MAP CHART EXCEL 2016 CITIES INSTALL
If you successfully install the plugin, you should be able to see it in your Excel under the “INSERT” tab. It won’t work on any other operating system though. Both 32bit and 64bit Windows version are supported but it will work only with Excel 2013 (no previous Excel version is supported).
MAP CHART EXCEL 2016 CITIES PLUS
Initially the plugin was restricted only for MS Office 365 subscribers and owners of an expensive MS Office Professional Plus suite but recently it has been released for all MS Excel 2013 users. You should download it and install without any issues. Of course the first step would be to download and install the plugin from Microsoft website. In this tutorial I’ll show you how make an awesome looking map in Excel in under 5 minutes with a free plugin called PowerMap (formerly GeoFlow). Many times it happens that you need to quickly visualize your data on a map but you don’t have a time to play for hours with ArcGIS or QGIS to make it look good.