Kristin,
What are you trying to do?
Does the chart have data labels and you want to change something about them?
Are you trying to add data labels?
Something else?
What version of XL are you using?
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"Kristin"
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This has also been posted on the Mr. Excel boards but has not generated any
response. I am working on modifing a chart using VB. I recorded the macro
at first and got the following lines of code:

ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(2).Points(1).DataLabe l.Select
Selection.AutoScaleFont = True
With Selection.Font
.Name = "Arial"
.FontStyle = "Bold"
.Size = 10
.ColorIndex = 2
.Background = xlTransparent
End With
With Selection
.Position = xlLabelPositionInsideBase
End With

When I try to rerun this code without any modification, I get the following
error:

Select method of DataLabels class failed.

I looked on a few boards and modified the code to look like this:

ActiveChart.SeriesCollection (1)
.HasDataLabels = True
.ApplyDataLabels Type:=xlValue
Selection.AutoScaleFont = True
With .DataLabels.Font
.Name = "Arial"
.FontStyle = "Bold"
.Size = 10
.ColorIndex = 2
End With
With .DataLabels
.Position = xlLabelInsideBase
End With

When i run this code, I get this error:

Invalid or unqualified reference

Is there some reference library that I need to select or something I need to
change in the code? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Kristin