Microsoft KB Archive/114521

= Macro Error Using MAIN.CHART Function =

Article ID: 114521

Article Last Modified on 8/15/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0c

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This article was previously published under Q114521





SUMMARY
If you use the MAIN.CHART function to format a chart in Microsoft Excel version 5.x or 7.0, you receive a macro error when you run the macro.



CAUSE
This is by design in Microsoft Excel versions 5.x and 7.0. The MAIN.CHART function is designed for use in Microsoft Excel version 2.2 or earlier. Because you can format the chart type for an individual series in a chart in Microsoft Excel versions 5.x and 7.0, a chart macro function designed for an earlier version of Microsoft Excel may not give the expected results when you use it in Microsoft Excel 5.x or 7.0.

These functions are listed in the Microsoft Excel Macro Functions Help in Microsoft Excel version 5.0, but are included only for macro compatibility with earlier versions of Microsoft Excel.



WORKAROUND
To edit a chart in Microsoft Excel 5.x or 7.0 using a macro, you can use the specific Microsoft Excel 5.x/7.0 macro chart commands either in a Microsoft Excel 4.0 macro or in a Visual Basic macro.

The following Visual Basic macro example formats the second series on the Chart1 sheet as a pie chart: Sheets("Chart1").Select ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(2).Type = xlPie Microsoft provides examples of Visual Basic procedures for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. This Visual Basic procedure is provided 'as is' and Microsoft does not guarantee that it can be used in all situations. Microsoft does not support modifications of this procedure to suit customer requirements for a particular purpose.

Note that a line that is preceded by an apostrophe introduces a comment in the code--comments are provided to explain what the code is doing at a particular point in the procedure. Note also that an underscore character (_) indicates that code continues from one line to the next. You can type lines that contain this character as one logical line or you can divide the lines of code and include the line continuation character. For more information about Visual Basic for Applications programming style, see the "Programming Style in This Manual" section in the "Document Conventions" section of the "Visual Basic User's Guide."



MORE INFORMATION
Note that although the following chart macro functions are also provided only for macro compatibility with earlier version of Microsoft Excel, they do not cause a macro error when you use them in a version 4.0 macro in Microsoft Excel version 5.x or 7.0:

COPY.CHART

EDIT.SERIES

FORMAT.MAIN

FORMAT.OVERLAY

OVERLAY

SELECT.CHART

SELECT.PLOT.AREA

