Instead of just selecting the chart, Shift-Select it. You will then see the
chart name appear in the Names box, where you can change it.

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Bob

"AllSensibleNamesTaken"
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Is there a way to control the names charts are given in Excel?
For example, a combo box can be renamed by setting its Name property.

I cannot see a way to change a Chart's name.
I need this so my VBA code can correctly distinguish between different
charts using a more sensible naming convention than Chart1, Chart2 etc...

I sigh in expectation of no solution... perhaps what I should do is
finally
ditch VBA and move to a proper OO .NET language where I hope to find event
handlers with some from of "this" concept. Anyone had good or bad
experiences
moving or writing new event driven .NET code to work with Excel?

Thanks so much