Since it's not really a dynamic solution anyway, why not copy the cells to
another range, without the gaps. Then you're back to the ideal, charting
contiguous regions.
- Jon
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"sqlfan13" <nospam.dustinmueller_13.at.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am attempting to generate dynamic column charts based on grouped data in
>a
> separate sheet. The user selects the data, and after putting the sheet
> together, the chart needs to graph This Year and Last Year as separate
> series, but use only Country, Region, and Unit, no sub-Unit
> I am looping through the rows, and putting together the string to assign
> to
> .Values for each series, but with a change to the structure of the data,
> now
> I am getting a much too long string to assign to .Values (255 char. limit)
>
> The basic string for the first series that I get from my loop is 308
> characters.
> strSeries1 =
> "=Summary!$E$14,Summary!$E$15,Summary!$E$16,Summary!$E$23,Summary!$E$24,Summary!$E$27,Summary!$E$31,Summary!$E$35,Summary!$E$38,Summary!$E$39,Summary!$E$45,Summary!$E$46,Summary!$E$48,Summary!$E$52,Summary!$E$55,Summary!$E$56
> Summary!$E$58,Summary!$E$59,Summary!$E$61,Summary!$E$62,Summary!$E$64,Summary!$E$65"
>
> I have tried assigning the first cell to the .Values property and using
> .Extend, but that has not worked for me either. I have checked out every
> conceivable site that i have found, and yet nothing has worked. Please
> Help!!!
>
> The data on the Summary sheet is basically formatted as follows:
> A E F
> Last Year This Year
> Country
> Region
> Unit
> Sub-Unit
> Sub-Unit
> Unit
> Sub-Unit
> Region
> Unit
> Sub-Unit
> Region
> Unit
> Sub-Unit
> Sub-Unit
>