XL98: Visual Basic Macro to Break Chart Links

ID: Q192370

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SUMMARY

Although charts in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition are, by default, linked to the range of cells on the worksheets that they were created from, these links can be broken by converting the cell references in the SERIES formula for the chart to values. This article contains a sample Visual Basic for Applications macro that you can use to do this.

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The following macro can be run for any active chart. For the purpose of this macro, a chart is active when any of the following are true:

Visual Basic Code Example

   Sub BreakChartLinks()

   For Each x In ActiveChart.SeriesCollection
      x.Values = x.Values
      x.XValues = x.XValues
      x.Name = x.Name
   Next x

   End Sub
Additional query words: XL98 
Keywords          : kbdta kbdtacode 
Version           : MACINTOSH:98
Platform          : MACINTOSH
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: May 18, 1999