CHAPTER 9Working with Charts
Getting the Inside Scoop on Charts
Excel's charting feature lets you create a wide variety of charts using data that's stored in a worksheet. You have a great deal of control over nearly every aspect of each chart.
An Excel chart is simply packed with objects, each of which has its own properties and methods. Because of this, manipulating charts with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) can be a bit of a challenge. In this chapter, we discuss the key concepts that you need to understand to write VBA code that generates or manipulates charts. The secret, as you'll see, is a good understanding of the object hierarchy for charts.
Chart locations
In Excel, a chart can be located in either of two places in a workbook.
- As an embedded object on a worksheet: A worksheet can contain any number of embedded charts.
- In a separate chart sheet: A chart sheet normally holds a single chart.
Most users create charts manually by using the commands in the Insert ➪ Charts group. But you can also create charts by ...
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