I am trying to use a macro to change the character spacing for my legend and axes labels on charts from the default 0 to 0.2. I used the record macro function and the result for the legend works fine. Specifically:
ActiveChart.Legend.Select
With Selection.Format.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font
.BaselineOffset = 0
.Spacing = 0.2
End With
But the result for the axes throws up an error when I try to run it myself. e.g:
ActiveChart.Axes(xlCategory).Select
With Selection.Format.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font
.BaselineOffset = 0
.Spacing = 0.2
End With
Once I run the second line, it tells me: "Run-time error xxxxx. Method TextFrame2 of object ChartFormat failed"
Any ideas on how I can change the character spacing for axes labels correctly?
Many thanks!
For some reason the error occurs when trying to access the TextFrame2 property of the axis.
Depending on your exact need a work around might be to set the spacing for the whole chart area at once.
Something along the lines of:
with ActiveChart.ChartArea.Format.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font
.Spacing=0.2
end with
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I have an existing Excel file I need to work with. It contains a line graph where measurement results are plotted. All the referencing is done via names. The graph is called "ChartResult".
Obviously Excel discriminates the graph area (the "outer") and the plot area (the "inner") where the graph is plotted. Please correct me if I'm wrong, also learning the preferred english nomenclature would be of great help.
My goal is to print the (page containing the) table so that the division/auxiliary lines have a specific distance from each other. My thinking was that if I define the scale of the axis (the max and min values) and define a size of the graph I would acheive this goal.
However in Excel I can only type in the size of the whole graph area, which is the outer thing, so not helpful when I want to define the size of the graph, the inner thing.
I started using VBA to acheive this but haven't been succesful:
Sub Groesse_eingeben()
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("ChartResult").Activate
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Select
ActiveChart.PlotArea.Select
Selection.Left = 0
Selection.Top = 0
Selection.Width = 200
Selection.Height = 200
End Sub
This code is changing the size an position of the graph but not to what I expected it to be. Is the input of Selection.XY in pixels or mm? I naively assumed mm but my graph becomes smaller than 200x200 mm, around 60x60 mm.
Thank you!
Chris
System:
Microsoft® Excel® 2016 MSO (Version 2204 Build 16.0.15128.20128)
Win10 Pro 21H2
Update:
Ok, the input size is points. But how to specify the exact size of the graph?
On the screenshot there are two dotted borders: One, the inner, is the actual size of the visible graph the other is the size of the graph object. To cause more confusion: Both are within the graph area, which I called "outer" area above :)
How can I input the exact numbers for the actual visible graph?
You can control the outer width of the chart (ChartObject) with the .Width property, and the inner width of the chart with the .Chart.PlotArea.Width property.
Here is a sub that takes a chart and widths as inputs, and updates the chart:
Private Sub SetChartWidths(Ch As ChartObject, OuterWidth As Long, InnerWidth As Long)
' Set the outer width of the chart
Ch.Width = OuterWidth
' Set the inner width (plot area width)
Ch.Chart.PlotArea.Width = InnerWidth
End Sub
EDIT START
And here is how you can use the sub:
Private Sub UseSubroutine()
' Store the chart object in a variable
Dim LineChart As ChartObject
Set LineChart = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").ChartObjects(1)
' Run the sub
SetChartWidths Ch:=LineChart, OuterWidth:=200, InnerWidth:=150
End Sub
If you're having trouble using the SetChartWidths sub, and it is in a different Module than the code you're calling it from, you can remove the Private from the front to change the Scope of the sub.
EDIT END
As for what widths to use, that will be up to you.
I am trying to resize an excel chart with VBA.
Is it possible to change ActiveChart.ChartArea.Height without affecting the size of the PlotArea? Whenever I attempt to change the chart height it looks like the plot area is automatically resized, which is an undesired outcome.
I have tried the following sequence, when downsizing a graph:
Changing plotarea to fixed desired height;
Changing chart height to fixed desired height;
Changing plotarea to fixed desired height;
This sequence does not yield expected results, as (1) the chart is not changed to specified height, and (2) the plotarea height is output correctly, but its positioning within the chart (.InsideTop) has changed.
Please, test the next way of dealing with a chart dimensions. The scenario involves the next process: firstly memorizing the PlotArea dimensions (Height/Width), then play with the chart (Object) dimensions, reset the PlotArea ones and set its Position to Automatic. Excel tries guessing what you want accomplishing and it looks/is more probable that both chart elements to be modified proportionally:
Sub testActiveChartDimensions()
Dim ch As Chart, plHeight As Double, plWidth As Double
Set ch = ActiveChart 'plays with a selectded chart
plHeight = ch.PlotArea.height: plWidth = ch.PlotArea.width 'memorize the plot area dimensions
ch.Parent.height = ch.Parent.height * 2: ch.Parent.width = ch.Parent.width * 2 'resize the chartObject
ch.PlotArea.height = plHeight: ch.PlotArea.width = plWidth 'reset the initial dimensions for plot area
' you can set any other dimensions (just to be lower than the new chart dimensions...)
ch.PlotArea.Position = xlChartElementPositionAutomatic 'center it on the chart object
End Sub
Hi I have developed VBA code that uses a user input to creates a bar chart. The number of bars in this chart can vary from the different users inputs. Unfortunatly I cannot think of a way to alter the size of the chart according to the number of bars.
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestion on how to do this.
Usually, when you want to make a change with VBA and you don't know where to start from you can try to record a macro while you perform the action manually and then check the generated code to see the output.
For example, if I select a chart inside a sheet and resize it, I get the following code:
ActiveSheet.Shapes("Chart 1").ScaleHeight 1.5, msoFalse, msoScaleFromTopLeft
ActiveSheet.Shapes("Chart 1").ScaleHeight 1.5, msoFalse, msoScaleFromTopLeft
You can then use this as a hint of how to write your code. For instance, you can make the scaling factor depend on the number of bars instead of being fixed at 1.5 in the example above.
Or, even better, instead of scaling the chart, you can specify the dimensions directly using the Height and Width properties:
ActiveSheet.Shapes("Chart 1").Height = 300
ActiveSheet.Shapes("Chart 1").Width = 100 + NumberOfBars * 15
Using the ChartArea object
The down side of the code above is that you need the name of the shape. If you want to edit the size of a chart that is currently selected without knowing its name, you could also use the following that makes use of the Height and Width properties:
Dim chrtArea As ChartArea
Set chrtArea = Selection
chrtArea.Height = 300
chrtArea.Width = 100 + NumberOfBars * 15
Or alternatively, you could assign the chrt variable as you create it which would make your code even more reliable.
How to get the number of bars?
Assuming you have only one series of data, you can get the number of observations which will be the number of bars:
Dim NumberOfBars As Long
NumberOfBars = UBound(chrtArea.Parent.SeriesCollection(1).XValues)
I am trying to set the color of even lines and markers according to the color of odd lines and colors.
Let's say, my table looks like this (speed1, performance1, speed2, performance2,.....)
When I plot a line chart It just gives every line a different color. In my case I want to give every two columns (speed and performance) a single color. So, for that I try every time to take the color of a line and the color of its markers, and then assign these colors to the following line (color of odd columns to even columns).
This is my code:
Sub ChangeColors()
Dim cht As Chart
Dim ser As Series
Set cht = ActiveChart
For i = 1 To cht.SeriesCollection.Count
If (i Mod 2) = 0 Then
Set dst = cht.SeriesCollection(i)
Set src = cht.SeriesCollection(i - 1)
dst.Format.Line.Visible = msoFalse
dst.Format.Line.Visible = msoTrue
dst.Format.Line.ForeColor.RGB = src.Format.Line.ForeColor.RGB
dst.Format.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = src.Format.Fill.ForeColor.RGB
End If
Next i
End Sub
The problem is that at the end all the even lines become black. However, when I try to pick a RGB color (for instance, RGB(255, 0, 0)) an assign it to the even lines they all become red, so it works.
UPDATE:
When I use a MsgBox to print the value of src.Format.Line.ForeColor.RGB and src.Format.Fill.ForeColor.RGB I get 16777215 and 0 respectively for all lines. So I don't understand why these values and why they are the same for all lines ?
Does anyone know what is the problem with my code ?
Thank you !
Should this line:
dst.Format.Line.ForeColor.RGB = src.Format.Fill.ForeColor.RGB
instead be:
dst.Format.Line.ForeColor.RGB = src.Format.Line.ForeColor.RGB
I have an Excel chart which changes on selections made in slicers.
I noticed that the plot area and the legend area change depending on the made selection.
I tried to fix the position and size for the plot area using vba, but this simply does not work unfortunately.
The plot area and the legend keep on resizing, causing the legend overlapping the plot area. Which I obviously do not want.
I have this code, placed in the worksheet page of the vba editor:
Option Explicit
Private Sub Chart_Calculate()
ChartObjects("grafiek 4").Activate
ActiveChart.PlotArea.Width = 637.783
ActiveChart.Legend.Left = 716.514
ActiveChart.Legend.Width = 176.735
ActiveChart.Legend.Height = 295.334
End Sub
having this code, I assumed the automatic resizing would be gone, but I saw the legend sometimes still overlaps te plot area.
Is there a solution which permanently fixes this problem?
Edit1:
Yesterday, I simply added a few parameters for the plot area. It seemed to work then. But now I tried again, and the legend is overlapping the plot area again.
I changed the code to:
Option Explicit
Private Sub Chart_Calculate()
ChartObjects("grafiek 4").Activate
ActiveChart.PlotArea.Top = 33.102
ActiveChart.PlotArea.Left = 67.1
ActiveChart.PlotArea.Width = 637.783
ActiveChart.Legend.Top = 7
ActiveChart.Legend.Left = 716.514
ActiveChart.Legend.Width = 176.735
ActiveChart.Legend.Height = 329.667
End Sub
So with 2 more paramters for the plot area.
edit2:
I have checked the legend properties in Excel. under 'options for legend' there is a checkbox: show legend without overlapping plot area (I do not know the exact english text).
This box is checked, but it does overlap the plot area.
Why is it impossible to achieve this? Having fixed sizes for the plot area and the legend should not be so hard.
edit 3:
I do have this routine now in my workbook:
Option Explicit
Private Sub Chart_Calculate()
ChartObjects("grafiek 4").Activate
With ActiveChart
With .PlotArea
.Top = 33.102
.Left = 67.1
.Width = 637.783
End With
With .Legend
.IncludeInLayout = True
.Position = xlLegendPositionRight
.AutoScaleFont = False
.Font.Size = 8
.Top = 5
.Left = 706.899
.Width = 179.735
.Height = 336.681
End With
End With
End Sub
Sub kopieergrafiek()
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Grafiek 4").Copy
End Sub
(including the suggestion in the comment below my post)
I does not seem to work. Does worksheet_change event perhaps works better?
edit 4:
I still do not have a solution for this issue. It already happens when the name of 1 of the legend items is to long to fit the space. And it also happens when there are to many items in the legend to fit in the space available.
I think there is no solution for this. Unless I could somehow tell excel to maximize the number of items in the legend. or to maximize the length of the series name.
I was having this problem myself with the legend resizing the plot area. I tried what Portland Runner suggested, only setting .Legend.IncludeInLayout to false (thus separating the legend from the plot area as he suggested, perhaps he made a typo?) and my plot area was no longer resized.
I also had this problem and found this answer. I found a fix that works for me. Not sure why exactly it works but I do these steps:
Set the legend position
Undock the legend (legend.includeLayout = false)
Resize the plot area to the size I wanted
Re-dock the Legend (legend.includeLayout = True)
Set the Legend.Left position
and after that the legend is correctly positioned and lined up.
I know this is an old thread, but since I had the same issue and was able to solve it, but did not really find the correct answer on this thread, I thought it would be good to post my solution. It is really important to refresh the pivotlayout, otherwise you will not see a difference in the Chart Legend. This will adjust the Legend so it will not overlap the plot area. It will also increase the size of the chart, so if you do not want that, you will need to use other code.
Sub AdjustChartLegendActiveSheet()
Dim j
For j = 1 To ActiveSheet.Shapes.count
If ActiveSheet.Shapes(j).Type = msoChart Then
ActiveSheet.Shapes(j).chart.Legend.IncludeInLayout = True
ActiveSheet.Shapes(j).chart.PivotLayout.PivotTable.PivotCache.Refresh
End If
Next j
End Sub