From what I've read in the newsgroup, xl2007 has trouble when you select shapes.

Maybe you could do it without the selection:

Dim myTB As Shape
Set myTB = ActiveChart.Shapes.AddTextbox _
(msoTextOrientationHorizontal, 500, 80, 120, 60)

myTB.OLEFormat.Object.AutoScaleFont = False
myTB.OLEFormat.Object.Characters(Start:=1, Length:=23).Font.Name = "Arial"

MarkCR wrote:

Greetings:

I have the following line in an Excel VBA Macro:

ActiveChart.Shapes.AddTextbox(msoTextOrientationHo rizontal, 500, 80, 120,
60).Select
Selection.AutoScaleFont = False
Selection.Characters(Start:=1, Length:=23).Font.Name = "Arial"

It runs perfectly well under Excell 2003, but under Excel 2007, I get the
following, very unhelpful, error message:

"Runtime error: 1004
Unable to get the Characters property of the TextBox class."

Sooo, what does unable to "get" the property mean. It doesn't exist? Has it
been removed? Am I not using it properly? Most important: What has changed in
Excel 2007 that this no longer works?

Thank you,
Mark

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Dave Peterson