Hi Dave:

Thanks for your response. It seemed like the right answer, but I am getting
the same error on the line:

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

Very strange...
Mark

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

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"