XL98: Chart Activation with Macro Changes Selection

ID: Q188494

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

When you run a macro that activates and deactivates a chart, the chart remains selected.

If your macro needs the selection to remain selected when the chart is activated and deactivated, your macro may not function properly or may not perform as it did in earlier versions of Microsoft Excel.

CAUSE

If you programmatically activate an embedded chart in earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, the chart is not selected. The range or object remains selected on the worksheet that was selected before the chart was activated.

This behavior has changed in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition. In Microsoft Excel 98, programmatically activating a chart will select the chart area. Thus, when the chart is deactivated, it remains selected.

This change in functionality may cause problems with code that expects the selection to remain as it was before the chart activation.

WORKAROUND

To programmatically deactivate and deselect an embedded chart, you must select another object on the worksheet.

MORE INFORMATION

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In earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, you could use the following line of code in a macro to restore the selection before the chart is activated:

   ActiveWindow.Visible = False

After the chart is deactivated in Microsoft Excel 98, you can use the following macro example to restore the worksheet selection. This macro demonstrates how to store the selection before activating an embedded chart and restore that selection and deactivate the chart.

Sub ChartSelection()

    Dim myobj As Object

    ' Save the current selection in the object variable "myobj".
    Set myobj = Selection

    ' Activate the embedded chart.
    ActiveSheet.ChartObjects(1).Activate

    ' Restore the selection.
    myobj.Select

End Sub

Additional query words: XL98 8.0 8.00 de-activate runtime error

Keywords          : kbprg kbdta xlvbahowto xlvbainfo 
Version           : MACINTOSH:98
Platform          : MACINTOSH
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: May 18, 1999