Microsoft KB Archive/176443

= OFF97: Sample VBA Code to Create a Graph from a Text File =

Article ID: 176443

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Graph 97
 * Microsoft Graph 98 Macintosh Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q176443



SUMMARY
This article provides a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that creates a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation containing a Microsoft Graph object. The graph is created using data imported from a data file. This file must be in comma-separated values (CSV) format or tab-separated values format.



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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub CreateGraphFromFile Dim oGraph As Object Dim oDataSheet As Object Dim shpGraph As PowerPoint.Shape Dim lRowCnt As Long Dim lColCnt As Long Dim lValue As Long ' Add the graph to the slide. With ActivePresentation.Slides(1) ' Create the Graph object on the slide. Set shpGraph = .Shapes.AddOLEObject(ClassName:="MSGraph.Chart", _                                       Link:=msoFalse) End With ' Set references. Set oGraph = shpGraph.OLEFormat.Object Set oDataSheet = oGraph.Application.DataSheet ' Place headers into data table. ' Create four column headers. oDataSheet.Cells(1, 2).Value = "Col1" oDataSheet.Cells(1, 3).Value = "Col2" oDataSheet.Cells(1, 4).Value = "Col3" oDataSheet.Cells(1, 5).Value = "Col4" ' Create four row headers. oDataSheet.Cells(2, 1).Value = "Row1" oDataSheet.Cells(3, 1).Value = "Row2" oDataSheet.Cells(4, 1).Value = "Row3" oDataSheet.Cells(5, 1).Value = "Row4" ' We already know the number of columns and rows ' from the data we are importing. Open "" For Input As #1 ' Get four rows of data. For lRowCnt = 2 To 5 For lColCnt = 2 To 5 ' Get value from file. Input #1, lValue ' Place in data table. oDataSheet.Cells(lRowCnt, lColCnt).Value = lValue Next lColCnt Next lRowCnt Close #1 ' Release the reference. Set oGraph = Nothing Set oDataSheet = Nothing End Sub

