XL5: Recorded Macro Prints Sheet Instead of Embedded Chart

ID: Q149060

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

In the versions of Microsoft Excel listed above, if you use a macro to print an embedded chart, the first sheet is printed rather than the entire chart. If you use recorded code that activates an embedded chart on a worksheet and then prints it, the sheet must be in the first position of the workbook; otherwise, the information on the first sheet is printed.

CAUSE

Assume that there is a chart on Sheet2 with the name Chart 1, and Sheet2 is not the first sheet in the workbook. The line that reads 

   ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.PrintOut
causes Microsoft Excel to print the first sheet in the workbook instead of the activated chart. The recorded code will be: 

   Sub Macro1()
       ActiveSheet.DrawingObjects("Chart 1").Select
       ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 1").Activate
       ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.PrintOut Copies:=1
       ActiveWindow.Visible = False
   End Sub

WORKAROUND

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To work around this problem, use either of the following methods. 

Method 1:   Replace ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.PrintOut with
            ActiveChart.PrintOut, as in the following example:

              Sub Macro1()
                 ActiveSheet.DrawingObjects("Chart 2").Select
                 ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 2").Activate
                 ActiveChart.PrintOut Copies:=1
                 ActiveWindow.Visible = False
              End Sub

Method 2.   Place the sheet with the embedded chart in the first position
            of the workbook.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0 and later.

Additional query words: 5.00a 5.00c XL5 

Keywords          : kbcode kbprg PgmOthr 
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0c; MACINTOSH:5.0a
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999