Microsoft KB Archive/183913

= XL98: Charts.Delete Command in Macro May Delete Worksheets =

Article ID: 183913

Article Last Modified on 6/17/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q183913





SYMPTOMS
If you run a Visual Basic macro to delete all of the chart sheets in a workbook, and the macro includes a line of code that is similar to the following ActiveWorkbook.Charts.Delete Microsoft Excel may delete one or more worksheets, including the active worksheet.



CAUSE
This problem occurs if the workbook does not contain any chart sheets.



WORKAROUND
Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements. To prevent this problem from occurring, modify the macro so that it checks for the existence of chart sheets in the workbook before it removes all of the chart sheets. For example, use the following code: If ActiveWorkbook.Charts.Count > 0 Then ActiveWorkbook.Charts.Delete End If If there are one or more chart sheets in the workbook, Excel deletes them. If there are no chart sheets in the workbook, Excel does not execute the command to delete the chart sheets. This prevents the macro from deleting any of the worksheets.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
Note that this problem does not occur in earlier versions of Microsoft Excel. In earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, if the workbook does not contain any chart sheets, you receive the following error message:

Run-time error '1004':

Delete method of Sheets class failed

Also, note that charts that are embedded in worksheets do not count as chart sheets. If the workbook contains embedded charts but not chart sheets, the Charts.Delete command removes one or more worksheets from the workbook.

