Well, once again I am able to stump people...

Google produces far too many -- or too few -- results and search criteria for this particular question is hit or miss. Painfully crawling thru my Excel
bookmarks I came across David McRitchie's page http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xlindex.htm and in it a chart link to Jon Peltier's page
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ChartsH...oveAChart.html

Bingo!

I replaced my trouble code with a snip from his page for testing:
ActiveChart.Location whe=xlLocationAsObject, Name:="Charts"
With ActiveChart.Parent
.Height = 500
.Width = 600
.Top = 100
.Left = 100
End With

and stepped thru the code and IT WORKED! (adding web page bookmark now...) So now I have a better idea (but still working on the understanding of it ;-) of
what to do.

Thanks to David for the index and to Jon for explaining a basic Excel function that nobody seems to understand. You know, Excel does more than spreadsheet
work, folks :-p"""
Toby Erkson
Oregon, USA

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:26:39 -0700, Toby Erkson < wrote:

What's working so far...
Dim chartAvgCalls As Chart
Set chartAvgCalls = Charts.Add
chartAvgCalls.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets("Pivots").Range("B7")
ActiveChart.HasPivotFields = False
With chartAvgCalls
.HasPivotFields = False
.PlotArea.Select
End With
...
Now, this line takes the chart (which is currently it's own sheet) and places it in an existing sheet named "Charts":
ActiveChart.Location whe=xlLocationAsObject, Name:="Charts"
This, too, works. But after that I can't figure out how to select the chart and move it. Using the macro recorder isn't helpful because this is what it
produces:
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 62").Activate
ActiveChart.ChartArea.Select
ActiveSheet.Shapes("Chart 62").IncrementLeft -168#
ActiveSheet.Shapes("Chart 62").IncrementTop -107.25
Notice that it specifically selects "Chart 62". Well, that chart won't exist the next time this is run because it increments i.e. Chart 63. I need a way to
programmatically specify the selected chart (object?) so I can move it.

Additional info: The "Charts" sheet starts out blank but in the end will have three different charts placed in it -- which is why I need to be able to select
the specific chart currently being created so it can be moved.

Toby Erkson
Oregon, USA