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Creating Charts

 
 
Common Excel Chart Types         
Chart      VBA Constant (ChartType property of Chart object)         
Column     xlColumnClustered, xlColumnStacked, xlColumnStacked100         
Bar        xlBarClustered, xlBarStacked, xlBarStacked100         
Line       xlLine, xlLineMarkersStacked, xlLineStacked         
Pie        xlPie, xlPieOfPie         
Scatter    xlXYScatter, xlXYScatterLines       


Public Sub AddChartSheet()
    Dim dataRange As Range
    Set dataRange = ActiveWindow.Selection
    Charts.Add   'Create a chart sheet
    With ActiveChart    'Set chart properties
        .ChartType = xlColumnClustered
        .HasLegend = True
'        .Legend.Position = xlRight

        .Axes(xlCategory).MinorTickMark = xlOutside
        .Axes(xlValue).MinorTickMark = xlOutside
        .Axes(xlValue).MaximumScale = _
                    Application.WorksheetFunction.RoundUp( _
                    Application.WorksheetFunction.Max(dataRange), -1)
        .Axes(xlCategory).HasTitle = True
        .Axes(xlCategory).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = "X-axis Labels"
        .Axes(xlValue).HasTitle = True
        .Axes(xlValue).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = "Y-axis"

        .SeriesCollection(1).name = "Sample Data"
        .SeriesCollection(1).Values = dataRange
    End With
End Sub








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8.Extending an Existing Series in the chart identified by the object variable myChart using the data in the cells P3:P8 on the worksheet named Chart Data:
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13.Get Chart sheet
14.Reference Char object from ActiveSheet
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16.Inserts a chart before each sheet
17.Inserts a chart before each sheet 2
18.Determining a chart's source data
19.Get Chart SeriesCollection value
20.Retrieving data point labels from field names in the worksheet
21.Show chart
22.Automatically generating a chart without user interaction
23.Producing an Excel worksheet on a Word 2000 document
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25.Use For Each to loop through all chart objects
26.Activates the ChartObject named Chart 1
27.Modifying the chart type
28.To ensure that a chart is selected, you can add a statement to determine if a chart is active.
29.In most cases you can avoid using the worksheet Index property
30.Insert chart sheets after each worksheet
31.Adding a Chart Sheet Using VBA Code
32.convert an existing chart to use arrays instead of cell references and make it independent of the original data
33.add the data labels using the following code:
34.Referencing Charts and Chart Objects in VBA Code
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