My guess would be it is because the user has the mouse button down and
XL is 'reluctant' to deselect something the user has just selected?

If Activechart.Deselect is in a sub by itself and that sub is run with a
chart selected, XL correctly deselects the chart.

As a side note...Interestingly, I had always thought some object in XL
had to be selected at all times. However, after executing the .Deselect
line, if one checks in Immediate window, one finds that there is an
activesheet and an activechart. However, selection is nothing!

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In article , says...
The code below works beautifully except for the Deselection of the chart
which steadfastly refuses to work. I even added

ActiveChart.ChartArea.Select

as an intermediate step to encourage it and two more chances before it
exits! What can be the problem here? The code is obviously executing but for
some reason does not see itself as active as soon as the event is triggered.

ANhyone know why it won't Deselect?

Thanks for your help, Mark


Private Sub Chart_MouseDown(ByVal Button As Long, ByVal Shift As Long, ByVal
x As Long, ByVal y As Long)

Dim ElementID As Long, Arg1 As Long, Arg2 As Long


With ActiveChart

' Pass x & y, return ElementID and Args
.GetChartElement x, y, ElementID, Arg1, Arg2

' Did we click on a point?
If ElementID = xlSeries Then

'Is it already Exploded?
If ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Points(Arg2).Explo sion 0
Then
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Points(Arg2).Explo sion = 0
ActiveChart.ChartArea.Select
ActiveChart.Deselect
Else
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Points(Arg2).Explo sion = 20
ActiveChart.ChartArea.Select
ActiveChart.Deselect
End If

End If

ActiveChart.ChartArea.Select
ActiveChart.Deselect

End With

ActiveChart.ChartArea.Select
ActiveChart.Deselect