The first thing that I would do is avoid using Active<object in general.
There will be exceptions to this rule, but it should be rare in nature as
you can run into a lot of issues otherwise to be using these active objects.

Now onto chart coding. This is one area all to itself, even within VBA.
Charts are easy to learn on the spreadsheet side, but much more complex on
the VBA side as it's spread out a lot more so than you would typically
think. I actually used the combination of the recorder and the watches to
help me learn the charting code a lot more easily, but even then, it's still
has some oddities to it. For instance, you want to line one chart directly
over the top of another chart, and you want to setup your own code for being
able to adjust the scales as the code may need to. Thirdly, you want to
have a label to the right of the charts but still within the chart area and
on top. This label is to move with the goal line as the scales are
adjusted. Well one oddity I found, setting the left, top, width and height
of the 2 charts don't necessarily place one directly over the top of the
other even though you would think that would have to happen. This can be
off by just enough to be visible when this is printed. This is what I had
to face in regards to my production charts and get them to look just how
people within the company wanted them to look for easy to read purposes.
Top chart being a line chart while the bottom chart being an area chart. On
the area chart, goal line had to stretch from the left edge to the right
edge of the plot area with it being one color above it and another color
below it. On the line chart, it had to track performances with the marks in
the middle of the columns.

Bare in mind, you not only have the chart area, but you also have the plot
area too as you will notice in the code below. Given the various oddities
and different rules that must be followed, I'm still not done setting up my
own codes for the production charts, but I have made some headway with it.
First, setup the charts by hand, and then use code to make adjustments to
those charts along the way on an as needed basis. This means it would also
be wise to name those charts for readability purposes. In this example, I
used this code to be able to line up the area chart with the line chart,
which was easier said than done as WYSIWYG doesn't apply too easily in the
case of working with charts overlaid on top of each other. I ended up using
larger border weight around the outside of the plot area on the line chart
to hide this fact when the charts prints out.

--------BEGIN---CODE--------------
Sub ChartMaintenance()
Dim lngFROWSET As Long, lngFROWRUN As Long, lngFROWPRD As Long,
lngFCHTCOL As Long
Dim lngLROWSET As Long, lngLROWRUN As Long, lngLROWPRD As Long,
lngLCHTCOL As Long
Dim dblHGTSET As Double, dblHGTRUN As Double, dblHGTPRD As Double,
dblCHTWID As Double
Dim rngTOPL As Range, rngBTMR As Range, cht As Chart, chtOBJ As
ChartObject
strSFN = "0271321_Production-2.xls"
lngFCHTCOL = 2
lngLCHTCOL = 11
lngFROWSET = 41
lngLROWSET = 55
lngFROWRUN = 58
lngLROWRUN = 72
lngFROWPRD = 75
lngLROWPRD = 89
With Workbooks(strSFN).Worksheets("Charts")
'With .ChartObject("chtSetupLine")
' .Left = 54
'End With
Set chtOBJ = .ChartObjects("chtRunArea")
With chtOBJ
Set rngTOPL =
Workbooks(strSFN).Worksheets("Charts").Cells(lngFR OWRUN, lngFCHTCOL)
Set rngBTMR =
Workbooks(strSFN).Worksheets("Charts").Cells(lngLR OWRUN, lngLCHTCOL)
.Top = rngTOPL.Top
.Height = rngBTMR.Top - .Top + rngBTMR.Height
.Left = rngTOPL.Left + 1
.Visible = True
.Width = rngBTMR.Left - .Left + rngBTMR.Width
Set cht = .Chart
With cht
With .ChartArea
.AutoScaleFont = False
.Fill.BackColor.SchemeColor = 70
'.Fill.BackColor.Type = 2
.Fill.Visible = msoFalse
'.Left = 4
'.Top = 4
End With
.HasDataTable = False
.HasLegend = False
'.HasPivotFields = False
.HasTitle = False
cht.PlotArea.Left =
Workbooks(strSFN).Worksheets("Charts").Cells(rngTO PL.Row + 2, rngTOPL.Column
+ 1).Left - chtOBJ.Left - cht.ChartArea.Left + cht.PlotArea.Left -
cht.PlotArea.InsideLeft - 2
cht.PlotArea.Width = cht.PlotArea.Width -
cht.PlotArea.InsideWidth + 388
cht.PlotArea.Top = rngTOPL.Offset(2, 0).Top - chtOBJ.Top -
cht.ChartArea.Top + cht.PlotArea.Top - cht.PlotArea.InsideTop - 13
cht.PlotArea.Height = cht.PlotArea.Height -
cht.PlotArea.InsideHeight + 137
End With
End With
'With .ChartObject("chtProdLine")
' .Left = 54
'End With
End With
End Sub
---------END---CODE---------------

Hope this is of help.


--

Sincerely,

Ronald R. Dodge, Jr.
Master MOUS 2000

"John" wrote in message
...
I use excel 2003 and when I try to use the macro recoder to create a
custom
chart type of "Line - Column on 2 Axes" the recoder creates the following
code and an example of the data is below the code. The chart that is
creaded
the first time when recording the macro is perfect.

However when I try to excute the macro I either receive an error message
runtime error 1004, "Methods axes of object - chart failed when I name
the
axes of the Series or

I simply have a column chart and not a combination chart.

What I am trying to do is have a single chart that shows staff in column
and
Volumn in line by time of day. I can make it work perfect by hand but I
am
unable to write a VBA routine that will accomplish the same thing again.
VBA
acts like it doesn't reconize the Chart Type.

Please help and Thanks in advance

'Macro Code
Charts.Add
ActiveChart.ApplyCustomType ChartType:=xlBuiltIn, TypeName:= _
"Line - Column on 2 Axes"
ActiveChart.SetSourceData
Source:=Sheets("Data").Range("B37:D61"),PlotBy:= _ xlColumns
ActiveChart.Location Whe=xlLocationAsObject, Name:="Data"
With ActiveChart.Axes(xlCategory)
.HasMajorGridlines = False
.HasMinorGridlines = False
End With
With ActiveChart.Axes(xlValue)
.HasMajorGridlines = True
.HasMinorGridlines = False
End With
ActiveChart.HasLegend = True
ActiveChart.Legend.Select
Selection.Position = xlBottom
With Selection.Interior
.ColorIndex = 36
.Pattern = 1
End With
End Sub

Spread Sheet Data
Col B Col C Col D
Row 37 Hours Staff Volumn
Row 38 0:00 2 52280
Row 39 1:00 2 52280
Row 40 2:00 2 52280
Row 41 3:00 1 52280
Row 42 4:00 0 52280
Row 43 5:00 0 52280
Row 44 6:00 0 52280
Row 45 7:00 0 52280
Row 46 8:00 0 95280
Row 47 9:00 0 58380
Row 48 10:00 0 52380
Row 49 11:00 0 58980
Row 50 12:00 4 81280
Row 51 13:00 4 117080
Row 52 14:00 4 70880
Row 53 15:00 3 96100
Row 54 16:00 4 91900
Row 55 17:00 4 27600
Row 56 18:00 3 62300
Row 57 19:00 2 44900
Row 58 20:00 2 22700
Row 59 21:00 2 9000
Row 60 22:00 2 0
Row 61 23:00 2 0