add new chart in 2007

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The code below is from xl2003. This created a nice chart. There were 5
values in one column cluster. The headers were on row 5 the values on row 8.

Is this possibe to recreate? I've looked through Help, and the object
browser to no avail. The chart looks different, it won't plot by columns,
and I can't seem to move it with VBA. I've tried recording the changes,
chartobject, chartobjects, chartwizard, and more I can't remember.

I feel I am missing something simple.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

With ActiveSheet.Shapes.AddChart(ChartType:=xlColumnClustered, _
Left:=5, _
Top:=Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(2, 0).Top, _
Width:=Range(Range("A5"), Range("B5").End(xlToRight)).Width
- 10, _
Height:=Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(23, 0).Top =
Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(2, 0).Top)
.Chart.SetSourceData
Source:=Union(ActiveSheet.Range(Range("B4"),
Range("C4").End(xlToRight).Offset(0, -1)), ActiveSheet.Range(Range("B8"),
Range("B8").End(xlToRight).Offset(0, -1))), PlotBy:=xlColumns
End With
 
ActiveSheet.Shapes.AddChart() is new in 2007. I presume your citation of
Excel 2003 is a typo.

I have not used this new syntax enough to have tripped over all of the
possible problems with it. You could go back to Excel 2003 syntax, which is
still valid:

With ActiveSheet.ChartObjects.Add({left, top, width, height}).Chart
.SetSourceData Source:={range}, PlotBy:=xlColumns
.etc
End With

- Jon
 
Jon-

You're right. I posted my attempt at trying to make it work. The code for
2003 (activesheet.chartobjects.add) doesn't create charts in 2007. That's
why I'm at this crossroads. A colleague of mine did find a KB site yesterday
that may offer a solution. I haven't tried it yet but will post back with my
results.


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937620/en-us
 
The code for 2003 (activesheet.chartobjects.add) doesn't create charts in
2007.
Click to expand...

Except that it does create charts in 2007. The MSKB article you cited has no
code for creating charts, only for formatting chart elements.

Post the code that doesn't work, and describe what "doesn't work" means:
what's the failure mode, what's the error message, etc.?

- Jon
 
Here is the code that created a chart in xl2003. As I said before,
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects.Add does not create a chart in xl2007 (That's been
my experience using the code below, but maybe I've got the syntax wrong). I
posted the MSKB website because I found out how to create a chart (using
ActiveSheet.Shapes.AddChart() from Original post) and was glad to find
something to allow me to move it to the desired location.

thanks for taking a look.

With ActiveSheet.ChartObjects.Add _
(Left:=5, _
Top:=Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(2, 0).Top, _
Width:=Range(Range("A5"), Range("B5").End(xlToRight)).Width -
10, _
Height:=Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(23, 0).Top -
Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(2, 0).Top)
.Chart.SetSourceData Source:=Union(ActiveSheet.Range(Range("B4"),
Range("C4").End(xlToRight).Offset(0, -1)), ActiveSheet.Range(Range("B8"),
Range("B8").End(xlToRight).Offset(0, -1))), PlotBy:=xlColumns
.Chart.ChartType = xlColumnClustered
End With
 
JNW -

I haven't looked at your code, but you could look at mine. I gave up trying
to find VBA code that would work on both 97-2003 and 2007, so I wrote
separate sections of code for each case. The example is the free,
unprotected Better Histogram add-in, available for download from
www.treeplan.com.

- Mike Middleton
http://www.DecisionToolworks.com
Decision Analysis Add-ins for Excel
 
Thanks Mike. This will be a great help. I, too, gave up on making the code
the same. I just couldn't find the controls for the charts in 2007.
 
Here your procedure, leaving out the stuff inside the With/End With block:

Sub test1()
With ActiveSheet.ChartObjects.Add _
(Left:=5, Top:=Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(2, 0).Top, _
Width:=Range(Range("A5"), Range("B5").End(xlToRight)).Width -
10, _
Height:=Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(23, 0).Top -
Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(2, 0).Top)

End With
End Sub

test1 works fine in Excel 2003 and in 2007. However, your arguments are hard
to parse in the ChartObjects.Add statement. What if you use some variables
like dLeft, dTop, etc., compute their values first, then add the chart
object using the simpler variables?

Sub test1a()
Dim dLeft As Double, dTop As Double
Dim dWidth As Double, dHeight As Double

With ActiveSheet
dLeft = 5
dTop = .Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(2, 0).Top
dWidth = .Range(.Range("A5"), .Range("B5").End(xlToRight)).Width - 10
dHeight = .Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(23, 0).Top -
..Range("B5").End(xlDown).Offset(2, 0).Top

With .ChartObjects.Add(dLeft, dTop, dWidth, dHeight)

End With
End With
End Sub

Notice I didn't use Range("A5"), but I referenced it to the sheet as
ActiveSheet.Range("A5"). It probably doesn't matter in this case, but it's a
good habit to reference your objects as completely as practical.

Another point is that End(xlDown) goes to the bottom of the sheet in the
absence of a break in the data, and offset(2,0) tries to go farther than
that, which is why I thought the code wasn't working. I had a similar
problem with End(xlToRight) if there was no break in the data.

- Jon
 
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